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Festival "BALTIC Music Days 2023" / MARCH 18 - 31, 2023 / LATVIA
Since
2021 “Baltic Music Days” has been organized by the Composer Unions of
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Each year the festival takes place in a
different Baltic country. The first festival, organized by the Estonian
Composers Union, took place online. The second festival was hosted in
Kaunas, the 2022 European Capital of Culture. This year the festival
will take place in Latvia from March 18–31 in Cēsis and Rīga. Nine
concerts are planned for the festival, including the Latvian National
Symphony Orchestra performing at Cēsis Concert Hall, the State Chamber
Orchestra “Sinfonietta Rīga” performing at the Great Guild Hall in Rīga,
and the Latvian Radio Choir performing at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian
Academy of Music.
A particularly special highlight of the festival
will be a performance by the world-famous percussion ensemble “Les
Percussions de Strasbourg” on March 19, at Cēsis Concert Hall.
The festival as a whole will include 11 world premieres by Latvian composers.
We have borrowed this theme from the title of Czech/French writer Milan Kundera’s well-known novel. We came to this idea at the war’s start — a war, which unfortunately has not yet ended. A war which has seeped into our daily lives, into our subconscious; a war which makes us shiver in compassion and demands that we help as much as possible.
“… for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes”*
Amid the war and the empathy, life and music continue, offering opportunities for sensitivity and joy. It is unbearably heavy and light at the same time. We have asked the festival’s composers to reflect in their new compositions: is heaviness truly terrible, and lightness wonderful? Is lightness positive and heaviness negative? For the moment, it is only clear that the opposition of heaviness and lightness is the most mysterious and meaningful of all opposites.
Come and listen to it with us!
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Koncertzāle Cēsis “ONE”| “Cēsis” Concert Hall |ONE
Latvijas Nacionālais simfoniskais orķestris | Latvian National Symphony orchestra, diriģents | conductor Guntis Kuzma, solists | soloist Mārtiņš Circenis (klarnete | clarinet).
Programmā | Program: Krists Auznieks, Erki Svens Tīrs | Erkki-Sven Tüür, Žibokle Martinaitīte | Žibuokle Martinaityte
Koncertzāle Cēsis | Cēsis Concert Hall |DOUBLE BALTIC CONTRASTS
Les
Percussions de Strasbourg | sitaminstrumentu grupa Les Percussions de
Strasbourg (Francija | France), Viktorija Pakalniece (soprāns |
soprano)
Programmā | Program: Gundega Šmite, Helena Tulve | Helēna
Tulve, Vykintas Baltakas | Vīkints Baltaks, Thomas Hummel | Tomass
Hummels, Sidney Corbett | Sidnijs Korbets
20.03.2023, 18:00
Klavieru kvartets “Quadra” | Piano Quartet “Quadra”, Guntis Kuzma (klarnete | clarinet), Guntars Freibergs (sitaminstrumenti | percussion)
Programmā | Program: Santa Ratniece, Oļesja Kozlovska, Andris Dzenītis, Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes | Tatjana Kozlova-Johannesa, Dominykas Digimas | Dominīks Digims
21.03.2023, 19:00
Rīgas Doms | Riga Cathedral |CO2
Aigars Reinis (ērģeles | organ), Aigars Raumanis (saksofons | saxophone)
Programmā
| Program: Tõnu Kõrvits | Tenu Kervits, Andris Dzenītis, Arturs Maskats,
Alise Rancāne, Dalia Raudonikytė | Dalia Raudonikīte, Marius
Baranauskas | Marjus Baranausks, Madara Pētersone, Galina Grigorjeva |
Gaļina Grigorjeva
Lielā ģilde | Great Guild | SPARK
Valsts kamerorķestris “Sinfonietta Rīga” | State Chamber orchestra “Sinfonietta Rīga”, diriģents | conductor Normunds Šnē, solists | soloist Guntars Freibergs (sitaminstrumenti | percussion).
Programmā | Program: Platons Buravickis, Jānis Petraškevičs, Justina Repečkaitė | Justīne Repečkaite, Madli Marje Gildemann | Madli Marje Gildemane
26.03.2023, 17:00
Rīgas Latviešu biedrības Zelta zāle | Riga Latvian Society House Gold Hall | THREE
Ieva Saliete (klavesīns | harpsichord), Artūrs Noviks (akordeons | accordion) (Latvija| Latvia)
Programmā
| Program: Jānis Petraškevičs, Juste Janulyte | Juste Janulīte, Linda
Leimane, Mirjam Tally | Mirjama Tallija, Indra Riše Stīgu kvartets “Chordos” | String Quartet “Chordos” (Lithuania | Lietuva)
Anna-Liisa Eller | Anna Līsa Ellere (kanele | kannel) Taavi Kerikmäe | Tāvi Kerikmee (klavihords, sintezators, elektronika | clavichord, synthesizer, electronics) (Estonia | Igaunija)
31.03.2023, 19:00
Programmā | Program: Ruta Paidere, Krists Auznieks, Mārtiņš Viļums, Santa Ratniece, Märt-Matis Lill | Merts Matis Lills, Nomeda Valančiūtė | Nomeda Valančūte, Rytis Mažulis | Rītis Mažulis
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