The legend of the noble knights, which is as old as the world, will come to life in a new programme "Songs of the Knights", a new work by one of the most famous Lithuanian baritones of the present day, Eugenijus Chrebtovas, and the ambassador of the Lithuanian culture in Germany, the pianist, vocal tutor, and musicologist, Raminta Lampsatytė. It would probably be difficult to find a person who has not heard of the strange knight Don Quixote, who performed incredible feats, experienced the strangest adventures, and was always full of noble thoughts and unattainable desires. His deeds, inspired by the many novels he has read about wandering knights, may strike many as strange to say the least. But, on the other hand, how much of his quests and the reflections that accompany them contain the wisdom of life, the philosophy of chivalry, the dreamy idealisation of objects. For this musical reflection, the performers of this concert have chosen two legendary vocal cycles and excerpts from Mitch Leigh's musical Man of La Mancha.

 The first cycle is Jacques Ibert's Songs of Don Quixote, composed for the legendary film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst and starring Fyodor Chaliapin as Don Quixote. He was the first to provide the voice-over for the four Ibert songs in the film, released in 1936. The second vocal masterpiece is Maurice Ravel's Don Quixote for Dummies. Ravel was the first composer to be commissioned to compose music for Pabst's film. Unfortunately, as he was beginning to compose the music, his illness worsened and the composer was forced to stop working. When the director did not receive the music in time, he terminated his contract with the composer and handed over the commission to Mr Ibert. This angered Ravel, but he did not abandon the idea and, after recovering somewhat from his illness, wrote three songs with lyrics by the film's scriptwriter, Paulo Morando. Unfortunately, the composer only finished the songs with the help of his friends and assistants, as he could no longer even sign them himself.

 The songs from the American composer Leigh's musical Man of La Mancha sound like hymns to love and chivalry. The story of this musical is set in a prison where Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra himself sits and, to prove his authorship, puts on a play about Don Quixote together with the other inmates.