Leader – Vineta SAREIKA
PROGRAMME:
Johann Sebastian BACH Violin Concerto in E Major
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony in C Minor
Arnold SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht
The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and the internationally acclaimed Latvian violinist Vineta Sareika will meet on the stage of the Concert Hall Latvija to present works by three geniuses, all of whom represent their time and place and have left an indelible mark on the history of music.
Composed around 1720, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Violin Concerto contrasts energetic subtlety and intensity of emotions characteristic to Baroque music. In his memoirs, Shostakovich described the Chamber Symphony composed in 1960 as a tribute to his memories, carrying within them a constant inner struggle between values and the regime. Schoenberg, on the other hand, had not yet come up with his seemingly revolutionary compositional technique in 1899 when he created a tonal work based on an unusual love poem by Richard Dehmel.