Cello Club 5
Five cellos, five musicians and five years. In time for Christmas, a unique anniversary concert will be given by the Cello Club cello quintet on 22 December at the new LVSO Hall.
Atmospheric, virtuosic, vibrant, glamorous - whatever epithets the members of the Cello Club - professional musicians performing classical and modern contemporary music in the world's concert halls - the cellist, Rokas Vaitkevičius, concertmaster of the cello group of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre Orchestra, cello and chamber music teacher, Povilas Jacunskas, concertmaster of the cello group of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Evaldas Petkus, member of the National Symphony Orchestra of Lithuania, Evaldas Petkus, member of the St. Domas Jakštas, cellist of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, Arnas Kmieliauskas, musician of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, one of the most prominent and active performers and promoters of the young generation of contemporary music. The musicians also play together with the classical and contemporary music ensembles Mettis, Chordos, FortVio, Synaesthesis and Twenty Fingers Duo.
No matter what the position, no matter what the achievements in the Cello Club - everyone is equal. Each member of the ensemble can become a leader, soloist or author of an idea, and fans are no longer surprised to hear academic music, popular classics and light music in the club's programme.
The Cello Club's music has no boundaries, no borders, it dissolves in time, in the moment, and so at the end of the year, it is as if it awakens the audience to reconsider the questions of being.
The Christmas concert at the LVSO Hall on the evening of 22 December will feature works from a wide variety of genres - from Anatoly Shenderov's Song and Dance to Ennio Moriccone's soundtrack The Man with the Lip Armonica from the film Once in the Wild West. Listeners will recognise Samuel Barber's Adagio and Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story from the club's first COMPANY programme. The 150th anniversary of the birth of Mikolas K. Čiurlionis will be celebrated with a new colouring of the String Quartet Part II by one of the greatest Lithuanian composers, one of the most beautiful melodies of the 20th century - Mahler's Adagietto, G. Sollima's Vibrez, filled with the spirit of Christmas, one of the most well-known and most frequently performed works in the world - Maurice Ravel's Bolero, and a lot of other well-known and emotionally moving pieces.
Light artist Arvydas Buinauskas will add even more colour to the concert.
The programme will include:
- A. Shenderov - Song and Dance
- S. Barber - Adagio
- M. K. Čiurlionis - Quartet Part II
- B. Bartok - Romanian folk dances
- Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story
Part II
- Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras No.1, Part I
- G. Sollima - Vibrez
- G. Mahler - Adagietto
- E. Morricone - The Man with the Harmonica
- M. Ravel - Bolero
