Summer night chamber music at Zuzeum Art Centre

This year, the cycle Summer Night Chamber Music will take place on 6, 7, and 8 September, in the luxuriant gladioli blooming season, while the responsibility for the programme this time has been entrusted to the Sinfonietta Rīga artistic collaborator, world-renowned clarinettist, composer and conductor Jörg Widmann. As always, Sinfonietta Rīga welcomes its listeners to a feast of chamber music in the home of the Zuzeum Art Centre.

SUNDAY 8 September at 19.00, Zuzeum Art Centre
INSPIRED BY SCHUBERT

At 18.00 Pre-concert conversation with Jörg Widmann in Zuzeum guest room

If the thematic accent in the cycle’s opening evening of concerts is placed on a creative dialogue with the genius of Mozart, the concluding programme on 8 September, INSPIRED BY SCHUBERT, will present Widmann’s colour- and transcendental reflection-filled Octet side by side with the monumental octet of the Austrian lyricist Schubert. Also not to be missed is the opportunity to meet Widmann in person before the concert. His passion, impressive erudition and charisma will be an opportunity to step into the artist’s laboratory of sonic images and ideas.

Programme: Franz Schubert Octet in F major, D 803

Jörg Widmann Octet (Oktett)

🎻 Performed by Magdalēna Geka (violin), Antti Kortelainen (violin), Ineta Abakuka (viola), Madara Norbūte (cello), Jānis Stafeckis (contrabass), Mārtiņš Circenis (clarinet), Jānis Semjonovs (bassoon), Artūrs Šults (French horn)

✨ The musical architecture of the concluding programme of the cycle Summer Night Chamber Music is carried by two colossi – Austrian lyricist Franz Schubert and his modern-day German colleague Jörg Widmann. Where Schubert’s music takes the tone of the dusky boundary between joy and sadness, Widmann’s works virtually pull the listener in and strike a profoundly emotional chord. This is also demonstrated by the current programme, placing side by side Schubert’s monumental Octet, which was composed two centuries ago, with Widmann’s two decades old opus for an identical set of instruments. If Schubert’s piece suggests echoes from the cheerful chatter of Viennese cafés, a passionate hunt amid idyllic nature or the even earlier Singspiele and the pearl of vocal music that is Der Wanderer, Widmann’s Octet is a tribute to the great romantic, imbued with respectful admiration and melancholy, reflecting in particular on the unsurpassed melodic talent of the outstanding lyricist. Also not to be missed is the opportunity to meet Jörg Widmann in person before the concert. His passion, impressive erudition and charisma will be an opportunity to step into the artist’s laboratory of sonic images and ideas.

Tickets – zuzeum.com  and bilesuserviss.lv.

🎟️ Concert tickets are available in several price categories:
Standart concert ticket: 25 EUR
Concert ticket with discount (students, seniors): 15 EUR
Concert series subscription (all four concerts): 60 EUR
Concert series with discount (students, seniors): 40 EUR

Ticket prices at the day of the concert at the Zuzeum ticket counter:
Standart concert ticket: 28 EUR
Concert ticket with discount (students, seniors): 18 EUR

Tickets are limited. Purchased tickets cannot be refunded or exchanged.

The entrance doors are opened at 18.00. The concert starts at 19.00. Free car parking is available in the event area, but the number of parking spaces is limited. Seats at the event are not numbered, so we invite you to arrive on time to take the most comfortable place!

🍷 Zuzeum Cafe and Bar will be available at the event. Entrance with food and drinks purchased outside the Zuzeum is prohibited. 

Supporters: VKKF, KM, LR3 KLASIKA, MŪZIKAS SAULE, RĪGAS LAIKS, SWH and Embassy of Germany in Latvia.
Organisers: Zuzeum, Latvijas Koncerti, Sinfonietta Rīga Foundation. 

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