Closing concert of the 20th Tytuvėnai Summer Festival with the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, soloist from Ukraine Aleksey Semenenko and conductor Robert Šervenik
Ukrainian soloist Aleksey Semenenko will play the violin together with the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra at the closing concert of the 20th Tytuvėnai Festival. A musician born in Odessa and living in Germany in 2012. debuted by winning the Young Concert Artists Series in New York, but global recognition came in 2015. In one of the world's largest Queen Elizabeth competitions held in Belgium, he won 2nd place. Aleksey has performed as a soloist with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Belgium and many others. Most recently he has been invited to the Seine, Cheltenham and Edinburgh Festivals, appearing as a soloist with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Aleskey recently graduated from the BBC's Next Generation Artists program for promising young artists. After his debut at the Kennedy Center, the Washington Post wrote: "Semenenko...explored every corner of the composer's imagination...a real triumph." In recent years, the young violinist Semenenko has become one of the world's elite violinists as a soloist and chamber music performer.
Together with the soloist, for the first time in the history of the festival, the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (LNSO), artistic director and chief. conductor Modestas Pitrėnas. LNSO is one of the most mature and famous Lithuanian orchestras. LNSO, which has been actively performing in Lithuania and abroad for several decades, is an irreplaceable participant in the musical life of our country and a nurturer of national culture, perhaps the most prominent spreader of the culture of Lithuania and the Baltic countries, consistently combining Baltic and European music performance traditions in its activities.
The concert will feature 19th century music. German composer, pianist, organist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) concerto for violin and orchestra no. Op. 2 64. The composer was a romantic who drew on classical traditions. Writing the violin concerto in E minor was inspired by his friendship with the concertmaster of the orchestra, the famous violinist Ernst Victor Carl Ferdinand David. The three parts of the concert are performed without a break. Lyrism and virtuosity, maintained balance between the soloist and the orchestra, contrasts and expression of timbres, the soloist's melodies accompanied by the orchestra and vice versa, the orchestra's themes in the background of the soloist's passages create an extremely colorful work.
The second piece to be played at the concert is the symphony no. 5 (1816). This is the only Schubert symphony in which the composer does not use trumpets, clarinets and timpani. Therefore, the piece is sometimes called a symphony without trumpets and drums. This symphony is often described as a work that pays homage to the masters of classical music, Mozart and Haydn. The four-movement symphony opens with a vigorous allegro movement, followed by a slower andante con moto second movement, if the first movement is a leap, then the second is a soft descent. Andante con moto sings, sometimes even sighs. The third movement of the symphony, minuetto allegro molto, features the chromaticism of the minuet of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 40th symphony. At the end, the shortest of all parts of the symphony - allegro vivace - is played, which, like the first part, is vigorous and cheerful, full of harmonic surprises.
Program:
Felix Mendelssohn - concerto for violin and orchestra no. Op. 2 64
Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 5 in B major
