At the remaining concert, recognized in collaboration with the Worldwide Competition of Sacred Songs, the general public experienced the chance to listen to the sacred motets of the excellent masters of choral polyphony, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn, performed by the State Academic Choir “Latvija” together with cellist Erika Kiršfeld, harpsichordist Gertruda Jerjomenko and double bassist Gunti Kolerta was done below the steering of Krista Auderes, a Latvian conductor resident in the Netherlands, winner of the prestigious global competitiveness for choir directors Erik Erikson .
The system also integrated compositions for solo instruments by Agra Engelmanis of Liepāja and the French composer Olivier Messiaen.
The 3rd Messiaen motion for solo clarinet “Putnu bezdibenis” from “Kvarteta laika galam” was performed by the concertmaster of the clarinet group of the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra Kārlis Catlaks. On the other hand, Engelmann’s Meditation for Solo Cello could be appreciated in the interpretation of the previous 1st violin of the Erik Kirschfeld team of cellos of the orchestra.
But on Friday night, in the “Lielais dzintars” concert hall, the pageant honored the memory of composer Pēteras Plakids in his 75th yr with a incredibly unique live performance program.
Cellist Ivars Bezprozvanovs, flutist Ilona Meija, oboist Pēteris Endzelis and pianist Dzintra Erliha played the Maestro’s new music, as perfectly as compositions by Lúcia Garūta, Imanta Zemzara and Dace Aperāne, as properly as the premiere of the “Winter season Diary” of Mārīte Dombrovska written in 2021.
