The world-famous violinists Patricia Kopatchinskaya and Gidons Krēmers together with the orchestra Kremerata Baltica are an unusual and powerful combination that we will experience in Liepāja with a new, absolutely unique and playfully original program featuring works by Franz Schubert, Raminta Šerkšnytė, Luigi Nono, and Luboš Fišer. Preceding an extensive European tour, the artists will allow us to be the first to appreciate this stunning novelty.
For the genius Patricia Kopatchinskaya, this is likely the first visit to Latvia, and we are deeply honored that the Great Amber Concert Hall is part of her first tour in Baltic countries. Patricia Kopatchinskaya is a superstar of the contemporary philharmonic stage: she is a strikingly skillful player of the violin in a classical and ethnic spirit, celebrating the traditional music of her native Moldova and the surrounding region; she sings purely and expressively alike (among her great achievements is a melodic rendition of Pierrot lunaire); she sometimes appears on stage barefoot, she enjoys the occasional performance en travesti, she composes, arranges, suggests, and promotes. A phenomenal artist that Latvia must see and hear!
Gidons Krēmers is a Latvian-born conceptual violinist, the recipient of numerous awards, and the initiator of many original pieces. A truly impressive initiative of his is uniting the most talented young people in the Baltics in the project orchestra Kremerata Baltica, which was established in 1997 and continues to travel the world with great success.
At the core of the new program is Franz Schubert’s magnificent string quartet Death and the Maiden, translated for a string orchestra by Patricia Kopatchinskaya herself. Schubert spent his short and incredibly productive life challenging this world and the one beyond, having never succeeded in fulfilling any of his romantic desires. The characters of the string quartet are symbols for both aspects of the composer’s life, Death and Love; it is powerfully dramatic, deeply sensual, and infinitely glorious music that will be presented by Kremerata Baltica, led by Patricia Kopatchinskaya, with a rich emotional saturation at the highest professional level.
The second heavyweight of the program is the opus for two solo violins ‘Hay que caminar’ by Italian avant-gardist Luigi Nono. The motif of the title was inspired by verses from Spanish poet Antonio Machado: ‘Traveler, there is no road; you make your own path as you walk..’ ‘Hay que caminar’ means ‘[but] we must go’. Nono found this idea very important, it was connected with several of his final pieces, including this duet, which was created in 1989 and dedicated to Gidons Krēmers and his former wife Tatjana Grindenko. In this performance by Gidons Krēmers, we will be able to feel the authentic link to Nono himself and also to reflect on Machado’s verses, and it will be a unique experience of hearing a violin legend of the second half of the twentieth century collaborate with one of the most outstanding and versatile artists of our time.
Alongside Schubert and Nono’s masterpieces, we will heart Lithuanian composer Raminta Šerkšnytė’s allusion to Schubert’s ‘Gute Nacht’ from his legendary Winterreise cycle, as well as the meditative and fascinating ‘Crux’ by Czech composer Luboš Fišer, where Patricia will be joined by the versatile percussionist Andrei Pushkarev.
The sequence of the program components is truly original: no multi-part opus will be played in order from beginning to end, parts of the pieces will alternate to breathe a new dimension into the narrative.
Great Amber in cooperation with Wintour Group International
Supported by:
Liepāja City Council, State Culture Capital Foundation, Liepāja 2027 Foundation, Uniting Foundation, Compensa Vienna Insurance Group, Austrian Embassy to Latvia and cafe "Čello"
Discounts:
Students, teachers, seniors – 25% Persons with group I and II disabilities and their companions – 50% For holders of the Honorary Family Card (“3+ Ģimenes karte”) or LT (“Šeimos kortelė”) or EST (“Perekaart”) – 25%
NB. Upon attending a concert, the attendee must show personal identification.
Group tickets: 10–30 persons – 20% 30 and more persons – 25%
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