For this fall season, the third one for the Embassy of Latgale GORS, there are planned three special and unique events. All the events have been presented in the beginning of this week at the press conference by the Artistic Director Ilona Rupaine.
The Embassy of Latgale GORS will continue their dedicated work in providing the genre diversity, also the plurality, offering approximately 150 events and continuing the collaboration with Latvian professional musicians. However, there are three unique events that will be held only at the Embassy of Latgale GORS, and for this reason, deserving a special attention.
As indicated by the conductor of the Latvian Radio Choir Sigvards Kļava, the choir will celebrate it’s 75th anniversary in Rezekne, on November 28th. This is the way of acknowledging the human love towards Latgale region, also emphasizing the importance of the concert hall itself: "If there is something well done in the culture field that needs to be mentioned, than that is definitely the concert hall. The Embassy of Latgale GORS has a special aura, where the music and its spirit is willing to live a very “tasteful life”.”
"Somehow a successful combination of the quality of acoustics and the infrastructure ensures this to be the place where the musicians are willing to came back again and again; the place where the music lives its creative life that the performing artists can only dream about," tells Kļava. He points out that both, the artist and the audience can experience the comfort that is offered and reachable only in the most famous concert halls of the world. The conductor did not share the content of the concert yet, only indicating that this is going to be something unusual and contrary to the traditional anniversary concerts.
Kļava draws an attention to the fact that the concert will be held at the Embassy of Latgale GORS for a reason that in Riga the choir has no place to perform: "It is not that we do not have a place to perform because of the lack of the concert venues. The reason is the lack of the concert hall in Riga." Conductor believes, soon the culture will have more of its happenings in the regions – Latvia itself is not only the city of Riga. In connection with the 100th anniversary of Latvia, Kļava has an idea to connect all the concert halls of Latvia, creating an outstanding and important performance and project circulation - creating the “Ring of Latvia”.
From October 24 to 31, in Rezekne, at the Embassy of Latgale GORS, a place will take the first festival of the organ music “ORGANisms”. The artistic leader of the festival, organist Iveta Apkalna indicates that this is the celebration of the organ "Johannus Eclessia" purchase in 2014. She mentions that this is the first and only festival that she is aware of, where the organ will be played as a concert instrument on the concert stage. On this aspect is also based the choice of musicians and repertoire, as well as the styles and genres. Apkalna mentions that the participants of the festival are not afraid to experiment, especially knowing the fact that the concert hall is able to provide much more opportunities than the church. The leader of the festival hopes to develop this event as a yearly tradition.
At the first concert of the festival on Ocotber 24, the organ will be played by Apkalna. Together with the chamber orchestra "Sinfonietta Rīga", she will perform the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach and Paul Hindemith. At the concert of October 27 an united performance will be presented by the organist Ansgar Wallenhorst and Lilija Lipora Contemporary Dance Company. However, on October 31, the musical readings of Rainis’ poetry from the collection of poems “Saules gadi” (Years of the Sun) will be performed and singed by the children choir of J. Ivanovs Rezekne Music Secondary School, students of the drums study course and organist Apkalna.
XI Baroque Music Days will be held from September 14 to September 20. Every year the festival is dedicated to a certain country. This year in the city of Rezekne will perform the musicians from the Czech Republic – introducing the audience with the musical traditions of the country. Three concert programs of the festival will present the sound of 200 years old original British instrument – fortepiano, specially transported for this festival all the way from Prague.
At the opening concert of the festival on September 15, the pianist Alena Henigova will perform the compositions of the Pre-Romanticism composer and an outstanding piano player of that time – Jan Ladislav Dussek, playing the fortepiano of the 19th century, produced by Broadwood manufactory. The concert program includes also a sonata dedicated to the Kurzeme duchess – Dorothy.
The second program will reveal the performance of the “Eisenberg Quartett”, a string quartet playing the historical instruments. They will perform the Quartet Op. 18 F Major by Ludwig van Beethoven and Quartet No 1 C Major by Johann Joseph Rösler. Two of the compositions will have the premiere performance: Quartet by the second violin of “Eisenberg Quartett”, Jirzi Sycha, with a clearly recognizable influence from the national music of the Eastern Moravia, and the composition of the Swiss composer Vincent Flückiger – Broadway, for string quartet, fortepiano, and sampler. As expressed by the composer Flückiger, he has influenced from the music of nowadays, for example, hip-hop, a genre that often for the creation of music uses the sampler. on the foundation of 100 compositions of Beethoven and Dussek, he has created a new composition, in the performance of which he will participate himself. "Eisenberg Quartett", together with Henigova and Flückiger, will perform also at the Luznava Manor (September 16) and the Small Hall of the Embassy of Latgale GORS (September 17).
As the conclusion of the festival on September 19, at the Embassy of Latgale GORS, and on September 20, at the Music Hall “Daile” in Riga, a place will take the production, comic opera of the 19th century – “Murder for Revenge”, by the Czech composer Johann Joseph Rösler.
