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.

FRIDAY 6 September at 19.00, Zuzeum Art Centre
MOZART’S CLARINET QUINTET AND WIDMANN’S CIRCUS DANCES

In the 6 September programme MOZART’S CLARINET QUINTET AND WIDMANN’S CIRCUS DANCES, alongside the masterpiece of the Vienna classic (with Jörg Widmann himself as soloist), listeners will also get to know the multifaceted chamber works of Widmann, who is in high demand in the most significant concert halls across the world, as composer.

Programme: Sergei Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes, op. 34 (Ouvertüre über hebräische Themen op. 34).
🎻 Performed by Agnese Kanniņa (violin), Kristiāna Krūskopa (violin), Artūrs Gailis (viola), Kārlis Klotiņš (cello), Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Lelde Tīrele (piano)

Jörg Widmann Duos for Violin and Cello (Heidelberger Version)

1) No. XIV Capriccio = Heft 2 I

2) No. XXII Lamento = Heft 2 IX

3) No. XXI Valse bavaroise = Heft 2 VIII

4) No. XIII Vier Strophen vom Heimweh = Heft 1 XIII

5) No. XXIV Toccatina all‘ inglese = Heft 2 XI

Performed by Ivars Brīnums (violin) and Dārta Trasune (cello)

Jörg Widmann Quintet for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano – Pēteris Endzelis (oboe), Mārtiņš Circenis (clarinet), Jānis Semjonovs (bassoon), Artūrs Šults (French horn), Lelde Tīrele (piano)

Jörg Widmann Zirkustanz No. XI – Bayerisch-babylonischer Marsch – Lelde Tīrele (piano)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581 – Agnese Kanniņa (violin), Kristiāna Krūskopa (violin), Artūrs Gailis (viola), Kārlis Klotiņš (cello), Jörg Widmann (clarinet)

✨ Often described as the greatest clarinettist of our times and just as frequently compared to the 18th century universal musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or romantic lyricist Franz Schubert, Jörg Widmann literally lives and breathes music. It is chamber music that the multifaceted German talent calls his greatest passion, revealing its mysterious depths and alluring heights together with such world-renowned performing artists as András Schiff, Daniel Barenboim and Heinz Holliger or Hélène Grimaud, Lisa Batiashvili and the Hagen Quartet. Meanwhile, in the opening concert of the cycle Summer Night Chamber Music Widmann will team up with the musicians of Sinfonietta Rīga. They will also interpret several opuses composed by Widmann himself and never previously performed in Latvia. Alongside fragments from the cycle of chamber music Circus Dances and 24 Duos for Violin and Cello, listeners will have the opportunity to get to know Widnmann’s Quintet. The artist has drawn inspiration for this musical mini-drama from the delicate sonic artistry of his revered Mozart. And how would it be possible to do without a masterpiece from the Vienna classic – the lightly melancholic and elegantly inventive Clarinet Quintet (with Jörg Widmann as soloist). And placed alongside this informal communion of artists is Sergei Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes with its colourful rhythms and melodies.

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
Organisers: Zuzeum, Latvijas Koncerti, Sinfonietta Rīga Foundation. 

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