LNSO, DANIILS BULAJEVS AND NORMUNDS ŠNĒ

Friday, March 5, at 7:00 p.m. at the Riga Congress Centre

LNSO, DANIILS BULAJEVS AND NORMUNDS ŠNĒ

Daniils BULAJEVS – violin

Conductor Normunds ŠNĒ

Program:

Robert SCHUMANN “Overture, Scherzo and Finale” Op. 52

Alberto GINASTERA Violin Concerto

Pēteris PLAKIDIS “Song”

On stage meet LNSO’s new concertmaster, violinist Daniils Bulajevs, and one of Latvia’s most important conductors, Normunds Šnē. The program they lead takes us through three distinct yet emotionally closely connected musical worlds. Schumann’s opus “Overture, Scherzo and Finale” was written during a happy period in the composer’s life after his marriage to Clara Wieck, yet alongside the festive brilliance of the music there is also a mysterious tension and dramatic unrest. In Ginastera’s Violin Concerto, echoes of old Argentine folk music intertwine with a modern musical language, creating an extremely virtuosic and technically demanding work. Meanwhile, Pēteris Plakidis’s “Song” gradually leads from intense drama and tension toward inner peace and reconciliation.