Daumants LIEPIŅŠ – piano
Conductor Jānis LIEPIŅŠ
Programme:
Artūrs GRĪNUPS Symphony no. 9
Igor STRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite
Serge RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto no. 3
Alongside the vivid musical profiles of Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky, revealed in their symphonic opuses, this programme also features Latvian bassist and composer Artūrs Grīnups with the quintessence of his oeuvre – his Ninth Symphony. To better understand the enigmatic 20th-century Latvian master of symphonic music, let us recall the apt description given by Pēteris Plakidis – that Grīnups spent his life “trying to restrain his volcanic temperament within the tight chains of classicism”. His final symphony – the Ninth – embodies that very struggle to its fullest.