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2024-03-06 07:35:00
Catching up with Gediminas Gelgotas: my article, Vilnius in drei Sätzen, in latest issue of Schott's Das Orchester
Back in 2018, I interviewed Lithuanian composer Gediminas Gelgotas when he brought his New Ideas Chamber Orchestra to the UK. Since then he and the ensemble have been busy. In March 2023 Gediminas conducted his largest work to date, The Sarabande of Vilnius with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the first mention of Vilnius in the historical record, and in December 2024 Gediminas and New Ideas Chamber Orchestra made their Carnegie Hall debut.I caught up with Gediminas late last year, via Zoom, and you can read the resulting article in German translation, Vilnius in drei Sätzen, in the latest edition of Schott's magazine Das Orchester. The March 2024 edition is entirely devoted to music and the Baltic.Further information from Das Orchester's website.
2021-01-21 08:30:03
Pulse of Minimalism: in one of the last live concerts before lockdown, Lithuanian composer Gediminas Gelgotas conducts concert of his own music and other contemporary composers
On 17 October 2020, the Lithuanian composer and conductor Gediminas Gelgotas conducted musicians from his New Ideas Chamber Orchestra and from the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra in a concert entitled The Pulse of Minimalism, in the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Great Hall in Vilnius. It was one of the last concerts in the hall before it closed for the second lockdown in Lithuania, which continues to this day. Luckily for us, the concert was filmed by Lithuanian National Philharmonic Television, a project which aims to bring the audience as close to the music as possible. The programme consisted of British cellist and composer Peter Gregson's Bach Cello Suites Recomposed (2018); originally scored for cello sextet, it was here performed by solo double bass, Roman Patkolo, and string orchestra. Patkolo was named instrumentalist of the year by Opus Klassik Award in 2018; his collaboration with Gelgotas began few years ago, when Patkolo recorded […]
2020-05-19 07:16:45
Going out of their comfort zone: David Nebel and Kristjan Järvi in violin concertos by Philip Glass and Igor Stravinsky
[…] young Polish violin virtuoso Samuel Dushkin, like Glass and Zukofsky, Dushkin would become an important mid-wife to Stravinsky's concerto and in fact the two men became friends. Another important figure was the composer Paul Hindemith, who allayed Stravinsky's fears about writing for the violin (Stravinsky was a pianist), with Hindemith suggesting that Stravinsky's very lack of experience writing for the instrument could be turned to his advantage. The Swiss violinist David Nebel commissioned Gediminas Gelgotas' Violin Concerto [see my interview with Gelgotas] and premiered it in 2018 with Kristjan Järvi and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic Orchestra. Here he joins the orchestra for Stravinsky's Violin Concerto, and in fact this recording was made way back in 2016 in the Great Amber Concert Hall, Liepaja, Latvia. Järvi takes quite a relaxed (but not lazy) view of both works, helped by Nebel's elegant, sweetly singing tone. Of course, Glass' […]
2020-03-30 19:36:37
Acclaimed cellist David Geringas performing the world premiere performance of Lithuanian composer Gediminas Gelgotas’ ‘To the Skies’ for Cello & Piano. Recorded live on the 12th of December, 2019 – in Vilinius, Lithuania. “The whole process of composing is different every time … in my case, the initial idea almost always comes in a form of a little musical […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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