Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra

Artistic Director Mindaugas Bačkus

Conductor Matthias Kuhn (Switzerland) Soloist Mindaugas Bačkus (cello) Programme: A. Webern, M. K. Čiurlionis, A. Schönberg, E. Elgar

The Swiss conductor Matthias Kuhn and the Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra share a creative collaboration, which this time spills over into an ambitious and unconventional programme prepared for the Klaipėda Music Spring. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of M. K. Čiurlionis, we will hear Vilhelm Čepinski’s new arrangement of Čiurlionis’ String Quartet in C minor for orchestra with a new finale of the piece! The programme also includes early opuses by composers who later became pioneers of modernism – Anton Webern’s Langsamer Satz and Arnold Schoenberg’s Notturno, both of which are imbued with authentic Romanticism. The programme will be crowned by Edvard Elgar’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor, which is characterised by the extraordinary beauty of late Romanticism and will be performed by Mindaugas Bačkus, the artistic director of the KKO and one of the most prominent Lithuanian cellists.

You can book your tickets here: https://kakava.lt/renginys/50-pavasariu-su-muzika-atsisveikinimas-su-romantizmu/9468/18374

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