Sunday, November 27, the State Chamber Orchestra”Sinfonietta Riga” for the first time in its history, he will take the stage of the famous “Concertgebouw” concert hall in Amsterdam. At the conductor’s desk will be an old friend of the orchestra and a musician well known to Latvian listeners, the first oboe of the Royal Orchestra of Amsterdam “Concertgebouw” Aleksejs Ogrinčuks.
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As “Delfi” informs “Sinfonietta Rīga” representative Gints Ozoliņš, there will be an opportunity to listen to the program that will be played in Amsterdam in Latvia as well – with the only concert in Daugavpils Vienības nama, the musicians will visit the hall in November 24.
One week after the concert dedicated to the 104th anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of Latvia at the Latvian National Theatre, “Sinfonietta Rīga” will announce our country’s cultural achievements from the prestigious “Concertgebouw” stage in Amsterdam. The live broadcast of the concert will be provided by Dutch radio NPO 4 and in collaboration with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) it will be possible to listen to it remotely in several other European countries.
Previously, “Sinfonietta Rīga” also performed in other places in the Netherlands: Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Eindhoven.
In the concert program specially prepared for this important event, “Sinfonietta Riga” will play music by Joseph Haydn, Sergei Prokofiev and Johann Sebastian Bach. The reins of the orchestra in this important event are entrusted to the oboist and conductor Aleksej Ogrinchuk, with whom the orchestra has had many brilliant moments of collaboration in the past.
The Royal “Concertgebouw” in Amsterdam is one of the most recognizable and at the same time acoustically excellent concert halls in the world. Its beginnings date back to 1882, when a public limited company was established in the Odeon theater in Amsterdam for the construction of a modern concert hall. The location was chosen outside the medieval historic center of Amsterdam, in peat bogs, which today are undoubtedly no longer associated with the suburbs in the slightest.
The territory, included in the municipality of Amsterdam only in 1896, was intensively studied. In 1885, the Royal Art Museum was also built opposite the future “Concertgebouw” building. The “Concertgebouw” building, designed by the architect Adolf Leonard van Gent, was instead inaugurated on April 11, 1888 with a solemn concert after five years of construction. A symphony orchestra of 120 musicians and a large choir of 500 singers took part in this event, playing music by Richard Wagner, Georg Friedrich Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Together with Boston’s Symphony Hall and Vienna’s Musikvereinsaal, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Great Hall is considered one of the finest acoustic concert halls in the world. During the celebration of the building’s 125th anniversary in 2013, the “Concertgebouw” was given the royal title, henceforth carrying the name of the Royal hall “Concertgebouw”.
