Already on Tuesday, November 17, spectators in Latvia and all over the world could watch a live broadcast of the 102nd anniversary concert of Latvia from the Liepaja Concert Hall “Lielais dzintars”. According to the representatives of the concert hall, a total of about 16 thousand households in Latvia, Great Britain, Germany, Norway, Ireland, Sweden, the USA, Italy, Canada and elsewhere had joined the concert live.
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In the solemn and ambitious concert program, Latvian folklore is intertwined with the pearls of romanticism created by our symphonic greats. The Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, pianist Daumants Liepiņš and soprano Liene Kinča performed the concert program of conductor Ainārs Rubikis.
“This is a program very close to me. Thinking about this concert, I remembered when Rēzija Kalniņš and I were still working in Novosibirsk and after a long time returned to Latvia in the spring, we felt the smell of freshly cut grass. It is a feeling that comes to mind when creating a holiday It was extremely important for me to gather together the feeling I have of Latvia, “reveals the concert ‘s artistic director and conductor, Berlin Comic Opera musical director Ainars Rubikis, who last week received the Russian Theater Award” Golden Mask “in the category Best Opera Conductor.
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The live broadcast of the concert was available on the website of the concert hall “Lielais dzintars”, on social network accounts, on the portal lsm.lv and in the live audio broadcast on Latvian Radio 3 – “Klasika”.
“The musical palette of this evening’s concert does not lack Latvian romance, nationally warm sincerity, joyful recklessness and sunny love. And, of course, solemn upliftment worthy of the holiday,” musicologist and host of the evening Liene Jakovļeva pointed out at the opening of the concert.
The concert was opened with a symphonic scope by the solemn “Overture” by Ādolfs Skulte, the soloist Pēteris Barisons’ “Latvian Rhapsody” was performed with the solo of pianist Daumants Liepiņš. The program was complemented by Mārtiņš Brauns ‘ballad “Tālavas taurētājs” highlighted from oblivion, but at the end of the evening three parts of Romualdas Kalsons’ suite “Songs of Seasons” and the suite “Rotāju, dancoju” created by Liepāja wind inspired were performed.
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“This evening is unique and I would say even impossible, I think that nothing like that is possible in life! The way Ainārs Rubiķis found this piece and insisted that this work should be collected together was not easy. Andris Sējāns helped us to This performance moved me, “emphasized Mārtiņš Brauns, the composer of the composition” Tālavas taurētājs “, who heard the composition composed in 1975 for the first time in the empty audience of the Liepāja Concert Hall after a 45-year break.
The recording of the concert is available in the archives of Latvijas Radio 3 – Klasika here. The video recording will be available to viewers at the end of December on the portal “Diva.lv” (within the framework of the ERDF project “Digitization of Cultural Heritage Content (Round 1)”).
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