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XXXIII festival "Klaipėda Music Spring”

“Klaipeda Music Spring – Magnificent Sound of Classics”

XXXIII festival “Klaipeda Music Spring”
2nd April – 10th May 2008 / Programme

Feel the beauty of melody, suit of harmony and perfection of form. Strain your ears to renascent sounds of nature and sway on the waves of mighty sea of sounds. Fortify yourself with power of music – let it overwhelm your negligent energy and present minutes of joyful enthusiasm!

“Klaipeda Music Spring” – the oldest musical festival in Lithuania – invites music lovers for the thirty third time. Festival concerts, distinguishing by expressivity, sublimity, effectiveness, are mighty sally of power of classical music and awakening spring!
Programme of XXXIII-rd “Klaipeda Music Spring” arranged by Klaipeda Concert Hall consists of ten events – eight concerts and two videoclubs. It is possible to even penetrate several minicycles in it: four times we will listen to music playing of chamber orchestra, performance of singers will charm us in three of them, and three concerts are dedicated to creation of one composer, two evenings we will spend with exclusive personality… Altogether in this festival will participate the most numerous band of foreign performers – six soloists and one conductor. With the best Lithuanian collectives they arrange programmes especially for “Klaipeda Music Spring”.

Power of opera and the orchestra, which sound never ends to attract

Performances of symphony orchestra persuasively convey the idea of the festival. In the opening concert “Power of opera” we will hear the symphony orchestra of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre for the first time in Klaipeda. In a programme, made up by the conductor Martynas Staskus, will sound fragments from operas and ballets of Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet, Leo Delibo, Richard Vagner.
Wonderful soloists will sing with the orchestra, by the way, ex-dwellers of Klaipeda city or people, who began music studies here: sopranos Joana Gedmintaite, Inesa Linaburgyte, Sigute Stonyte and tenor Audrius Rubezius.
“Orchestra, which sound never ends to attract” – in such way the festival presents the concert of Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra. This collective, especially expected in Klaipeda and conducted by art director and superior conductor Gintaras Rinkevicius, will perform with a violinist Liana Isakadze (Germany), who earned an international recognition and had never yet given a concert in our seaport.

Symphonic etudes for piano

Extraordinary guest of the festival of this year – piano virtuoso Alexander Palei (USA). Performances of this charismatic personality in Klaipeda Concert Hall become an especially expected intrigue.
It seems that all styles are within powers of A.Palei and there isn’t anything impossible for him. The most various and richest colours of sound are typical for his performance: lucid passage works and dramatic cascade of accords, energetic repetitions and the most delicate piano. Phenomenal memory allows the performer to learn by heart the most complicated scores without even touching the instrument. And what physical power is hiding in his fingers! So the recital of the pianist is called “Symphonic etudes for a piano not just because of the piece of Robert Schumann that is played in it, but also because of the ability of A.Palei to make the piano sound like symphonic orchestra.

Challenges of Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra

Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra will appear on the festival two times. A real challenge to the orchestra is to give a concert with Alexander Palei, who will play and conduct all six clavier concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. A direct conducting from the piano is a new role specialization of this performer.
Other concert of KKO will be conducted by Belgian Daniel Gazon, soloist – Liora Grodnikaite (mezzo-soprano), who is making a fast career in London “Covent Garden” and on scenes of other foreign theatres. Selection as arrangements for chamber orchestra Claude Debussy’s “The Afternoon of a Faun” prelude and Gustav Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer” grants oneness to this programme. And the title of the concert “Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra Celebrates the Spring” was inspired by a suite “Appalachian Spring” of Aaron Copland.
By the way, with the latter programme Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra will debut in a repertoire of Lithuanian National Philharmonic.

The Meaning of Sounds and Miraculous Beauty

At the outcome of KCH and LNP cooperation contract the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Robertas Servenikas, will appear again in Klaipeda. On his concert „The Meaning of Sounds and Miraculous Beauty“ we will listen to the owner of unique voice (countertenor) Yanivo d’Or (Israel) and percussionist Pedro Carneiro (Portugal). Sounding operas’ fragments of past composers George Frideric Handel, Christoph Willibald Gluck and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will let you enjoy by a novel singing, which artists, granted with a rare gift of nature, render to listeners of our century. And works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Ney Rosauro will surprise by ingenuity and virtuosity of percussioner.
Attractive to the public and stylistically clear programme of the orchestra “Camerata Klaipeda” is called “300 years to Vivaldi”. Collective leader - violinist Vilhelmas Cepinskis and oboist Philipp Nodel (Russia) will perform solo parts in it.

Masterpieces of great polyphony masters in the interpretation of „Aukuras“ and „Jauna muzika“

Klaipeda choir„Aukuras“ and Vilnius municipality choir „Jauna muzika“ prepares the collective project, which will be performed in both cities. Masterpieces of great polyphony masters of Venice and the Flemish masters such as Orlandus Lassus, Luca Marenzio, Giovani Gabrieli and other works of Renaissance composers, selected by chorus and rarely performed in the concerts, would have to intrigue music gourmets. The concerts will be conducted by leaders of mentioned collectives Alfonsas Vildziunas and Vaclovas Augustinas.

Interesting meetings in video clubs

The festival invites to visit two events in video clubs, which will take place in I floor foyer. Tatjana Sedunova, leader of LNOBT ballet troupe, will visit a video club „Maya Pliseckaya – Diva of Dance“ and comment a creative work of famous ballerina. Visual fragments will remind the most impressive moments from performances of M.Pliseckaya.
Other evening will be dedicated to a creative work of the conductor Jonas Aleksa. Musicologist Zivile Ramoskaite will speak about unforgettable musical meetings with Maestro. Visual materials from performances conducted by J.Aleksa will also remind this.

We are waiting for pleasant meetings in Klaipeda Concert Hall, which create a spring mood and saturate with a great classic sounding!