Magdalēna Geka, violin

Viktorija Majore, voice

Sinfonietta Rīga

Conductor Normunds Šnē

 

Programme:
Platons Buravickis Violin concerto Vakuuma domēni (world premiere)

Ondřej Adámek Karakuri – Poupée mécanique

Georg Friedrich Haas ...und...

 

ARĒNA is a contemporary music festival which, since 2002, gathers composers of new music, players and listeners from many countries of the world in Latvian concert halls every autumn. The motto of the festival is LISTEN TO THE FUTURE! includes the main idea and goal of the festival – to show the diversity of modern music in all its glory, promoting the creation, performance and documentation of new music.

This year's ARĒNA looks towards the cosmos and invites you to creatively explore both its unfathomable depths and indescribable expanses, as well as its magical lure and physical regularities, which have stimulated various artistic processes throughout the ages.

 

The greatest intrigue of the concert "Laika poētika" is the new work of Platons Buravickis - the violin concerto Vakuuma domēni, the solo part of which was written for Magdalēna Geka. If the handwriting of this musical chameleon tends to be characterized by explosiveness and aggressive beauty, then the hardened soloist of world stages, who is also the concertmaster of Sinfonietta Rīga since this year, is one of the most temperamental and musically courageous Latvian musicians of her generation.

The creative work of the extraordinary Czech talent Ondřej Adámek is also extremely engaging, in which a lively observation of the modern multicultural world is fascinatingly fused with an interpretation of insights based on history. This is also confirmed by his opus ​Karakuri – Poupée mécanique, which was inspired by the special Japanese karakuri dolls endowed with a delicate mechanism. Latvian soprano Viktorija Majore, specialized in contemporary music, will join the orchestra in the opening of this timbrally gorgeous score.

And after a long time, the dazzlingly virtuosic and ideologically tense sound art of Georg Friedrich Haas, the living legend of Austrian contemporary music, will be heard in Latvia - a masterpiece for chamber ensemble and electronics made in 2008...und...with a reference to the erotically disturbing verses of Elsa Lasker-Schiller.