Sun, 13 Oct 2024, 17:00
In the Small Hall
Lawyers:
Kaunas String Quartet
Karolina Beinarytė-Palekauskiene (1st violin)
Aistė Mikutytė (2nd violin)
Eglė Lapinskė (viola)
Kasparas Šerpytis (cello)
Sergej KRINICIN (guitar)
Programme
Faustas Latėnas - String Quartet Nr. 2 "In Bright Memory"
Maximo Diego Pujol - "Guernica" (suite for guitar and string quartet)
1. Mujeres (Women)
2. El Ave (The Bird)
3. El Guerrero (The Soldier)
4. El Caballo y el Toro (The Horse and the Bull)
5. Mujer con niño muerto (Woman with a dead child)
6. Epílogo (o la resistencia) (Epilogue (or Resistance))
Teisutis Makacin - Scherzo concertante for string quartet
Maximo Diego Pujol - Suite de Buenos Aires (for Guitar and String Quartet)
1. Pompeya
2. Palermo
3. San Telmo
The Kaunas String Quartet, together with guitarist Sergey Krinitsyn, has prepared a colourful and new programme featuring two suites by the Argentine composer and guitarist Maximo Diego Pujol, which are particularly interesting in their content. The first suite, Guernica, is based on Pablo Picasso's work of the same name. The artist painted it after the Basque city of Guernica was mercilessly bombed by thousands of shells during the Spanish Revolution of 1937. Picasso's contemporaries remembered: "Although the artist had never been to Gernika, the news of its destruction hit him like a bull's horn."
The second, the Buenos Aires Suite, is like a stroll through the Argentine capital. The movements of the suite are named after the districts of Buenos Aires, which, according to the composer, have a distinctive atmosphere, which he has captured in his composition.
Not coincidentally, alongside the works of the Argentinian composer, the Kaunas String Quartet will play the rhythmically atmospheric Scherzo concertante by Teisutis Makacin and Faustus Latėnas' String Quartet No. 2 "In Memory of the Light", featuring excerpts from the music for the famous play "Smile on us, Lord" by director Rimas Tuminas, for which the composer was awarded the St. Christopher's statuette. According to the composer, art is born out of love for God and man, and this quartet "is dedicated to the bright memory of all the good friends who are no longer in this life, and all the happy moments we had together". In general, most of Latén's works reflect the spirit of the theatre and the passionate colouring of Astor Piazzolla. We invite you to take a walk in this colourful and theatrical musical spring!
Lithuanian Classical Guitar Festival and Competition Laureate SERGEJUS KRINICINAS started learning to play guitar at the age of 14, his first teacher was Jurgis Rimkevičius, the founder of the Lithuanian Classical Guitar School.
He has appeared in concerts with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy, the Chamber Orchestra of Klaipėda, and the Kaunas Symphonic Orchestra. Krinicinas is also an active teacher - in 2001 he founded a guitar class at the J. Naujalis Music Gymnasium in Kaunas, where he has trained many laureates of national and international competitions, and since 2011 he has been teaching at the Academy of Music of Vytautas Magnus University.