Haydn's symphony and Sorensen's Piano Concerto
Robert Fleitz, piano
Sinfonietta Rīga
Conductor Normunds Šnē
Programme:
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 60 in C major Hob. I:60 (“Il Distratto”)
Bent Sørensen Piano Concerto No. 3 “La Sera Estatica”
Andris Dzenītis Symphony No. 3 “Arcadia” (premiere)
Esa-Pekka Salonen “Fog”
Painting a mysterious evening ambiance, Bent Sorensen's third piano concerto “La sera estatica” is composed as a tribute to the composer's wife, the Danish pianist Katrine Gislinge. References to her favorite pieces of piano music from past centuries are delicately woven into the contemporary sound landscape of this opus. Conductor Normunds Šnē has chosen the romantic interplay of the two musicians as one of the leitmotifs of the concert, entrusting the role of soloist to Robert Fleitz, virtuoso of contemporary music. He has polished his skills in New York, Riga, and Helsinki, the birthplace of the world-famous conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, whose composition “Fog” explores the themes of Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita for Violin No. 3. Right next to it – Andris Dzenītis in his new symphony talks about Arcadia, a world of dreams and harmony, “where the Faun rested in his midday sleep, where the characters of Čiurlionis' paintings walk, where one’s eyes close slowly and gently before falling asleep… a place that entices and blooms, that has its share of sweet eroticism, and that also exists without us, objectively and divinely.” But the favorite Viennese classicist of Sinfonietta Rīga, Joseph Haydn, in his Symphony No. 60 refers to the vivid characters of the comic play "Il distratto".