This year, the festival “Latvian New Music Days 2021” offers to listen to concerts online. Four concerts took place in early March. In turn, the two postponed – “Ligeti. Time Waves” will take place on April 17, but the closing concert “Leimane, Viļums, Grizē” will take place on April 29.
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According to the organizers from the Latvian Composers’ Union, live concerts will be available on the website bezrindas.lv. Pre-purchased subscriptions and tickets will be valid and available until the start of the concert.
The core of the festival “Latvian New Music Days 2021” consists of several concert programs, the center of which is a masterpiece of the 20th century, a masterpiece that changed the path of music development – Steve Reich’s “Piano Phase”, Gergis Ligeti’s Second String Quartet and Gerard Grizze’s . These outstanding masterpieces have been sources of inspiration for new works by Latvian composers who contextualize, refer to, meditate on the poetic and technological aspects of these works.
The concerts of the festival are called foot concerts this year, because it is possible to watch the live broadcast anywhere, also outside the home, and the composers themselves recommend places to listen to their concerts.
In the concert program “Ligeti. Time Waves” the first performances of Anna Ķirse, Oskars Herliņš and Armands Skuķis will be heard in the interpretation of the Sinfonietta Rīga string quartet.
Anna Ķirse recommends listening to her composition “Mundus Invisibilis” underground to be closer to the mushroom network, from which the composer was inspired by her work. If this is not possible, the composition will also fit into a walk in the woods or at home.
Oskars Herliņš encourages him to listen to his work “Block Buster” by splitting firewood, which inspired him to create a composition.
At the end of the festival, on April 29, there will be the premiere of the monumental chamber music opus “Vortex Temporum” by the French composer Gerard Grisey in Latvia and new works for the orchestra by Latvian composers Mārtiņš Viļums and Linda Leimane with reflections on musical space.
Linda Leimane recommends listening to this concert in a wide and open field – not too wooded swamp or open field with a couple of oaks in the distance, feeling the ground under your feet, the rainbow shape and colors of the composition.
In addition to tickets, the festival also offers two types of foot concert subscriptions, which you can buy for yourself – two feet or for two friends – six feet. Subscriptions and tickets are available on the platform bezrindas.lv.
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