“The overall view could be characterized as moderately modern: without extremes, but in trend, not falling out of the Latvian music paradigm, but marking its own name and letter. The different compositions included in this album are united by a common feature: they are related to the stage, to the theater, so they convey something different art,” writes musicologist Jānis Torgāns in the annotation of the album.
The album includes such opus of the composer as “El Cid. Dances of Life and Death” created in 2008. Guntis Kuzma played it together with the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra at the opening concert of the season, where he appeared before this orchestra for the first time as the main conductor.
The suite for Carlson’s 2017 ballet “Antonija #Silmachi” was also recorded, which was performed at the opera house in 2018. The ballet was inspired by the play “Skroderdienas Silmachis” by Rudolph Blaumanis. In a continuous symphonic development, the suite arranges excerpts from the ballet for both acts. Under the leadership of Gunta Kuzma, the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra premiered this suite in October 2020 in Liepaja.
On the other hand, the third opus included in the album is “Jāzepa’s visions”, composed in 2015, where the voice of Daumantas Kalniņas can also be heard. “Visions of Joseph” is a retrospective of the 1981 theatrical performance “Joseph and his brothers” directed by Arnold Lininis.
“Juris Karlsons is a wide-ranging musician and cultural worker. First of all, a dynamic, diverse and prolific composer in a wide variety of genres. But also a pedagogue and at one time also the rector of the Jāzeps Vītolas Academy of Music of Latvia, as well as the chairman of the Latvian Composers’ Union,” the publishers said.
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