LNSO AND KRISTĪNE BALANAS

Friday, February 5, 7:00 PM at the Riga Congress Hall

LNSO AND KRISTĪNE BALANAS

Kristīne BALANAS – violin

Conductor Guntis KUZMA

Program:

Ilona BREĢE Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Symphony No. 35 “Haffner”

Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra

There is no doubt about violinist Kristīne Balanas’s abilities among music critics, conductors, or the world’s leading orchestras. In tandem with the accomplished LNSO conductor Guntis Kuzma, for whom, incidentally, Mozart has been one of the closest composers since childhood, they will perform a special program where three different eras and musical worlds meet. Ilona Breģe’s contemporary violin concerto, one of Mozart’s late symphonies, as well as Witold Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra, one of the most important works of Polish postwar music, with motifs of Polish folk music subtly woven into its modernist sound.

The concert is included in the Spring Subscription 2027