Summer Night Chamber Music | Summer Night Chamber Music

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 Widmann'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.

Programme

Sergei Prokofiev “Overture on Hebrew Themes”, 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 
Performed by Ivars Brīnums (violin) and Dārta Trasune (cello)

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

Jörg Widmann Suite Zirkustanz
Performed by Lelde Tīrele (piano)

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