Vilniaus festivalis. Trys herojai: Wagner, Liszt, Strauss. LNSO, Victorien Vanoosten, Yoav Levanon

Performers:
LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(artistic director and chief conductor Modests Pitrėnas)
Soloist YOAV LEVANON (piano, Israel)
Conductor VICTORIEN VANOOSTEN (France)

Program:
RICHARD WAGNER - Overture to the opera "Parsifal"
FERENC LISZT - Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 E flat major, S. 124
RICHARD STRAUSS - Symphonic poem "A Hero's Life", op. 40 ("Ein Heldenleben")

"Fantastic", is how the musicians of the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra describe the French trampoline master Victorien Vanoostenas. The audience, who have already attended several concerts conducted by him at the Philharmonic, second to them. V. Vanoostenas, who grew up in Lille, studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire, as well as conducting in Paris and Helsinki, and in 2016 won the ADAMI conductor competition. V. Vanoosten is invited to conduct the Paris Chamber Chamber, Berlin Staatskapelle, Vienna Tonkünstler, Montreal Métropolitain and other orchestras, among his latest works are G. Bizet's Pearl Fishers, Carmen, J. Massenet's Tais, Productions of F. Flotow's "Martha" and other operas in Toulouse, Berlin, Marseille, Frankfurt. The conductor was awarded the Order of the French Republic for services to French culture.

"At 19 years old, the Israeli pianist Yoav Levanon is already surprising with his great maturity", - this is how the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung commented on the impressive performance of the young musician in 2022. Europa Open Air concert in Frankfurt in front of 25,000 spectators and almost half a million TV viewers. The pianist performs at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Boulez Hall in Berlin, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Elbe Philharmonic in Hamburg, the Piano Summit presented by Martha Argerich in Elmau Castle, and he records F. Liszt's piano concerts for the Warner Classics company. Y. Levanon first appeared on stage at the age of four, at the age of five he became the winner of the national piano competition in Israel, and at the age of six he won the gold medal at the international piano competition in the USA and performed on the Carnegie Hall stage in New York.

The program of this Vilnius Festival concert includes three wonderful pictures of heroes. The first of them is Parsifal, the savior of the world, the hero of the last opera reformer Richard Wagner's drama-mystery of the same name. The overture of this opera can be called a symphonic poem. The First Piano Concerto of the great romanticist Ferenc Liszt is often called a musical novel: the development of the material in this concert resembles a rhapsodically told story - the piano solemnly recites its part like a solid orator, it plunges into the melodic curves like a youthful romantic hero, it bursts with sparkling virtuosity, which requires a special techniques. Richard Strauss's symphonic poem "The Life of a Hero", unlike other works of the same genre by the composer, has no literary source, which gave rise to various speculations - who is the hero? Once the composer admitted that the epigraph of the work could sound like this: "Through the struggle - to the perfection of the spirit, achieved at the cost of painful losses."

Festival organizers:
Lithuanian National Philharmonic
VšĮ "Vilniaus festivaliai"

The festival is financed by Vilnius city municipality

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