The concert programme presents works by 20th- and 21st-century composers from three countries bordering the Baltic Sea: Poland, Latvia, and Finland.<\/p>\n
Henryk Miko\u0142aj G\u00f3recki\u2019s Three Pieces in an Old Style (1963) were allegedly composed in response to a friendly \u2018criticism\u2019 by Tadeusz Ochlewski, who claimed that G\u00f3recki\u2019s music lacked melody. As the title of this short cycle suggests, the composer refers to the styles of past eras: modal elements appear in all three movements; the third uses a melody from an anonymous 16th-century song, while the second pulses with the rhythm of an old folk dance. <\/p>\n
In Vox Amoris, a one-movement fantasy for violin and string orchestra (2009), Latvian composer P\u0113teris Vasks gives voice to love as \u2018the most powerful force in the world\u2019. The violin and orchestra \u2013 \u2018the best combination for a \u201clove story\u201d\u2019, as the composer put it \u2013 create a narrative that is initially subtle and lyrical, but then gains dramatic momentum in the climactic cadenza, resolving into a calm, melancholic conclusion. <\/p>\n
The second part of the concert features Sibelius\u2019s monumental Symphony No. 2 (1902), which his contemporaries interpreted as a voice in Finland\u2019s struggle for independence \u2013 a view the composer himself denied. Written shortly after the death of his daughter, Sibelius described it as a \u2018confession of the soul\u2019. The second movement, including motifs of death and resurrection, can be heard as a musical portrayal of grief and the search for consolation. The victory of hope over darkness is also symbolised by the triumphant finale following the dramatic third movement. <\/p>\n
PROGRAMME:<\/strong><\/p>\n Henryk Miko\u0142aj G\u00f3recki<\/strong> P\u0113teris Vasks<\/strong> ******<\/p>\n Jean Sibelius<\/strong> ______<\/p>\n PERFORMERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n Liep\u0101ja Symphony Orchestra<\/p>\n Guntis Kuzma \u2013 conductor<\/p>\n Vineta Sareika \u2013 violin<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The concert programme presents works by 20th- and 21st-century composers from three countries bordering the Baltic Sea: Poland, Latvia, and Finland. Henryk Miko\u0142aj G\u00f3recki\u2019s Three Pieces in an Old Style (1963) were allegedly composed in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990013,"featured_media":11532,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[169],"class_list":["post-11626","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-warsaw","cat_warsaw"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eufonie.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eufonie.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eufonie.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eufonie.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eufonie.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eufonie.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eufonie.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eufonie.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11626"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eufonie.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThree Pieces in an Old Style for string orchestra<\/p>\n
\nVox Amoris. Fantasy for violin and string orchestra<\/p>\n
\nSymphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 43<\/p>\n