VALENTIN SILVESTROV - Anthem - 2001
FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY - Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in E major
MIECZYSŁAW KARŁOWICZ - Symphony in E minor "Rebirth"
In the penultimate concert of the 27th Vilnius Festival, the energetic duet of pianist brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussens, who won the sympathy of Lithuanian listeners and won an unprecedented ovation, will play music on the big stage of the National Philharmonic. This tandem of performers is one of the most impressive on the international scene. Music legend and conductor Sir Neville Marriner has said of the young virtuosos: “You realize it's not everyday. It's not just two good pianists playing together. It's much more, they feel each other's smallest, most individual nuance of interpretation." And the conductor Michael Schønwandt, who had to conduct the Jussens' performance, playfully described playing with this duo: "It's like driving two powerful racing cars at the same time." The most prestigious classical publishing company "Deutsche Grammophon signed a contract with the Jussen brothers back in 2010, their debut recording with works by L. van Beethoven went platinum and was awarded the Edison Klassiek Audience Award. Lucas and Arthur play with the world's most famous ensembles, such as the Concertgebouw, Boston, Philadelphia, Birmingham, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Montreal, Sydney, Singapore, Shanghai, Denmark National and other symphony orchestras. The duo performs with famous conductors, including Christoph Eschenbach, Andris Nelson, Manfred Honeckas, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and many other batuta masters.
The concert program includes an intriguing introduction to the youthful scores of composer prodigies - fourteen-year-old Mendelssohn's playful concerto for piano duet, played by the composer himself and his sister Fanny during the premiere, and 19th-20th-century works. a romantic symphony by Karłowicz, who lived at the junction, which the twenty-third-century Polish composer began composing while studying in Berlin. Alongside these opuses, Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov's 1999 music will be played. created "Hymnas - 2001", dedicated to the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli.
This concert can also be called a kind of dedication to the city of Vilnius. Tonight, maestro Andrzey Boreyko stands at the conductor's desk of the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, 2022-2023. for the fourth consecutive season as the artistic director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. It is interesting that the roots of this conductor's origin stretch back to Vilnius - his father was born and raised here, having emigrated to Poznań after the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. The personality of the composer Mieczysław Karłowicz is also associated with historical Lithuania - he was born and spent his childhood in the Vysniaus estate, the third of his six symphonic poems is extremely personal and is called "Lituvian Rhapsody" ("Rapsodia litewska"), and a conservatory established by Poland, named after the composer, operated in Vilnius between the wars on behalf of
