Organum Concert Hall and world-renowned pianist Alexander Paley continue the Beethoven Inventions concert series dedicated to the chamber works of Ludwig van Beethoven. The two autumn concerts will include the Variations for cello and piano of the great Viennese classic, two piano Trios and the 1st Violin Sonata (09.22); November 16 - sonata flutes and horns solo with piano and piano wind quintet. These concert programs highlight the evolution of Beethoven's work - from the search for an individual style and the development of genres - to unprecedented innovation and powerful impulses for the further development of European music.
Alexander Paley's ambition reveals Beethoven's chamber music as a nucleus of ideas, a kind of cradle of creativity: it contains the great artistic inventions that transformed the 18th century. contours of classical music forms and became the prophets of Romanticism. Together with his colleagues on the stage - cellist Marius Dominykas Sakavičius, violinist Raimonds Butvila and his founded ensemble "Paleases", Alexander Paley embarks on the path taken by Beethoven, in the footsteps of his genius thought.
Nature endowed Beethoven with the inquisitive and active mind of a philosopher. His interests have always been unusually broad, covering politics, literature, religion, philosophy, and natural sciences. Even deafened, he found the strength to go against fate, and the ideas of Resistance, Overcoming became the main meaning of his life. Consolidation of one's personality and spiritual world became the norm of Beethoven's artistic existence.
Musicologist Viktoras Gerulaitis wrote: "Beethoven's creative personality is amazingly universal. It is not that his creative legacy covered all the genres of that time - in each of them he opened unseen and unthought layers of thoughts and artistic decisions. (...) The innovative juices of the Renaissance and Baroque, Haydn and Mozart, Germany and Austria, Britain and Spain, Slavic peoples flowed into his music. He cultivated all the Romantic music from Schubert to Mahler.”