FANTASTINIS DE FOCUS

Performers:
LITHUANIAN STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Art manager and chief conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius

Soloist
DMITRI LEVKOVICH (piano, Ukraine-Canada)

Conductor RIČARDAS ŠUMILA

Program:
Dominykas Digimas - "De Focus"
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73
Hector Berlioz - "Fantastic Symphony"

Dmitrijus Levkovičius, a star of global brilliance, the talented pianist returns to the stage of the Kaunas State Philharmonic together with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by of the chief conductor of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater Ričardas Šumilas.

D. Levkovičius, an artist of Ukrainian origin living in Canada, was born with two vocations: a pianist and a composer. His performances have been praised for "extraordinary artistic sophistication" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and "a musical understanding far ahead of most of his peers" (American Record Guide), and his original compositions have been praised by Philadelphia's Broad Street Review for their "heartfelt melodies". ” and “huge emotional waves”. The pianist has performed in such world concert halls as the Berlin Philharmonic, Paris Champs Elysees Theater, New York's Carnegie Hall and others.

November 21. listeners will be able to hear Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770–1827) Fifth Piano Concerto performed by D. Levkovičius and the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, known for its majesty, bright melodies and heroic spirit.

In the second part of the concert, the orchestra will perform one of the most famous works of the great French romantic Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) - "Fantastic Symphony", whose full title is "Fantastic Symphony: An Episode of the Artist's Life". This symphony is one of the first pieces of program music, and also stands out for its extremely innovative, even revolutionary ideé fixe theme of the time - it depicts the hallucinatory fantasies of H. Berlioz himself, who possessed him because of his unrequited love for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. True, after the premiere of the symphony, the composer's seven-year suffering ended - impressed by the fame of H. Berlioz (at the premiere were such musicians as Ferenc Liszt, Fryderyk Chopin, Niccolò Paganini, writers Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo and George Sand) H. Smithson agreed to marry behind the composer. in 1830 The symphony presented in Paris earned H. Berlioz the reputation of one of the most progressive composers of the age.

The concert will also feature the composition "De Focus" by the youngest generation of Lithuanian composers, Dominykas Digims.

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