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Klaipeda Music Spring 2008
XXXIII festival "Klaipėda Music Spring” |
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“Klaipeda Music Spring – Magnificent Sound of Classics”
XXXIII festival “Klaipeda Music Spring” 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! 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. We are waiting for pleasant meetings in Klaipeda Concert Hall, which create a spring mood and saturate with a great classic sounding! |



