Following the centuries-old cultural connection between the Duke of Kurzeme Pēteris Bīrons in 1783 and Renovated in 2014 by Imants Lancmanis, the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra has been organizing a festival at the Liepāja Summer Rundāle Castle for the fourth year in a row.
“The fabulous lightness of the White Hall of Rundāle Castle and the ancient magic of the Green Theater, exciting tales for young listeners, elegant chamber music for the bigger ones, also wise conversations about the depiction of death and resurrection in art, Kristīne Balana and Inta Dālder’s solo music conducted by Gunt Kuzma in the crown – the warm darkness of the summer night, the smell of Rundāle roses and Bach’s music on the balcony of the castle – all this awaits us on August 7 in Rundāle Castle, “says Uldis Lipskis, the conductor of Liepāja Symphony Orchestra.
At The 13th festival at Rundāle Castle Green Theater will start with a children’s program – preschool and primary school age children together with Liepāja theater actress Karīna Tatarinova and orchestra musicians – forest ranger Inga Novicāns and percussionist Marta Kauliņa – will be able to get involved in storytelling and singing. Accompanied by music by Latvian composers, there will be stories about the circus lion Boniface, who travels across the ocean to meet his grandmother, the little raccoon who is learning to be brave, and the beautiful, long bean that grows in the clouds.
At 15 Chamber music will be played in the White Hall. The musicians of the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra have formed a string quintet and with youthful energy offer listeners a light, bright and colorful program in summer, in which dances alternate with compositions full of lyricism and joy of life.
At In the concert theater on death, rebirth and rebirth, phoenix and Osiris, as well as other myths and legends, the writer, Secretary General of the Latvian Council of Creative Unions Haralds Matulis and philosopher, researcher of ancient culture Harijs T will meet at the Green Theater of the 17th Castle Garden. The conversation will be accompanied by soloist Edgars Vaivods, percussionist.
At 20 The Liepāja Symphony Orchestra conducted by Guntis Kuzma will perform in the White Hall at the culmination of the festival. Violinist Kristīne Balana will play solo at Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto, while this year’s jubilee clarinetist Inta Dalder will hear the early romantic star Karl Maria von Weber at the Second Clarinet Concerto. The program also includes music by two sons of Johann Sebastian Bach: one is Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach, an advocate of storm and drive ages, and the other is Johann Christian Bach, who has been a major influence on the growth of the new Mozart.
At At the end of the 22nd festival, Rundāle Garden will be magically lit up and 18th century masterpieces will sound on the castle balcony. Kristīne Balana will play Bach’s chacon for violin solo, flutist Egija Sproģe will interpret the fantasies of Georg Philip Teleman, while cellist Krišjānis Gaiķis will play Bach’s Third Suite.
The events are planned so that the festival guests have enough time to see the expositions and park of the castle museum, as well as enjoy a delicious meal in the restaurants of the castle and its surroundings.
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