Gastrolės | ENDLESS PLEASURE (BERIBIS MALONUMAS)

ENDLESS PLEASURE

Concert

Duration: 1 hour. 20 min.

Performers:

Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė (soprano)

St. Christopher's Chamber Orchestra (artistic director and conductor Modestas Barkauskas)

Conductor - Trevor Pinnock (United Kingdom)

In the 111th season, Vilnius Old Theater looks back on the history of the Theater building and, responding to the era of the State Opera and Ballet Theater that existed there for many years, initiates musical programs and opera productions. The first swallow - British early music legend Trevor Pinnock together with soloist Lauryna Bendžiūnaite (soprano), St. Christopher's Chamber Orchestra and the International Wind Ensemble, presenting the concert program "Endless Pleasure", which will feature the most famous works of Georg Friedrich Händel (1685−1759) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756−1791).

The world's most famous concert and theater halls have been delighted by the highest level of craftsmanship, captivating performance, authentic sound, Handel, Mozart - isn't this a boundless pleasure?

The concert program "Endless Pleasure" is a first acquaintance, a kind of introduction to 2025. the production of G. F. Händel's opera "Acis and Galatea" created by maestro Trevor Pinnock and director Gintarus Varna, which will be presented in the spring in the old theater of Vilnius.

Programme:

Georg Friedrich Händel - orchestral suite "Water Music" in F major, HWV 331

Georg Friedrich Händel - Semele's aria "Endless Pleasure" from the opera "Semele" ")

Georg Friedrich Händel - Concerto for oboe and orchestra in G minor, HWV 287

Georg Friedrich Händel - Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6, no. 6, no. 5, HWV 323

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Despina's aria "Una donna a quindici anni" from Così fan tutte

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Paminos aria "Ach ich fühls" from the opera "The Magic Flute" (Die Zauberflöte)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony no. 29 A major, KV 201

Trevor Pinnock (b. 1946) is a world-renowned harpsichordist, conductor, pioneer of the revival of early music in Europe. in 1972 founded the baroque orchestra "The English Concert", playing from the 11th to the 18th centuries. musical instruments (conducted it until 2003), has recorded solo works (including J.S. Bach's Goldberg variations and partitas). Recent recordings include JS Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and a unique arrangement of Józef Koffler's Goldberg Variations. Principal Guest Conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music. Constantly works with Amsterdam Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest (Netherlands), Bremen Deutsche Kammerphiharmonie and Salzburg Mozarteumorchester (Germany). Artistic Director of the Anima Mundi Festival in Pisa and Chief Conductor of the Tokyo Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra. in 1992 awarded with the Order of Britain (CBE), and in 1998 - Order of Arts and Letters ("Ordre des Arts et des Lettres").

Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė (b. 1981) is an opera singer (soprano). He graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Performances took place at Opèra National du Rhin, Royal Swedish Opera, Vilnius City Opera, Stuttgart Opera, Concertgebouw Hall in Amsterdam, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Elbe Philharmonic, Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Lucerne Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, Malmö Live", at Tokyo's Kioi Hall. She performs with the Hamburg Symphony, Netherlands Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Lithuanian State Symphony and Lithuanian National Symphony, Malmö Symphony, Basel Chamber Orchestra, The English Concert, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Her wide repertoire includes everything from Henry Purcell to the most complex compositions of the 20th and 21st centuries. works of composers.

Vilnius City Municipality St. Kristoforos Chamber Orchestra (artistic director and chief conductor - Modestas Barkauskas, honorary conductor Donatas Katkus) - was assembled in 1994 on the initiative of D. Katkus. in order to realize the idea - to establish a baroque orchestra. At that time, there was little experience in performing music of this era in Lithuania. The orchestra stands out for its special stylistic versatility, professionalism, and artistic imagination. Having earned the reputation of a "baroque orchestra" and a revivalist of rare scores, he is welcome not only in prestigious concert halls in Lithuania and abroad, such as Paris' Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Boston's Symphony Hall, Chicago's John F. Kennedy Center, Reykjavik's Harpa ", Stockholm's Berwaldhallen, UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the Royal Palace in Warsaw, but also at contemporary music festivals or popular music scenes.

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SEMELE

Unbounded pleasure, boundless love,

Semele enjoys herself in the heights!

Jupiter stretched out on her breast,

Bergždzis, this thunder is still muffled;

Lightning surrenders to her hands,

And flashes into her eyes.

(William Congreve. Fragment of the aria "Endless Pleasure" from the libretto of the opera "Semelė". Translated from English by Gytis Norvilas)

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