ARENA will participate in Classical: NEXT 2015 in Rotterdam
From
20 to 23 May, New Music Festival ARENA will participate in the international professional's forum for classical and art music Classical: NEXT in
Rotterdam, Netherlands, representing three
co-productions by Latvian and foreign artists.
ZAUBER- UND BANNSPRUCHE AUS ALTER ZEIT / SPELLS AND CHARMS FROM ANCIENT TIMES (2013)
is created by composer Helena Winkelman
(Switzerland) and conductor Antra Drege (Latvia), based on ancient
Latvian and Swiss texts.
Thirteen new pieces are performed in combination with traditional
instrumental Swiss folk dances and Latvian a cappella folk songs.
Listen to the excerpts (20
min.) from concert
in Alpentöne
festival (Altdorf, Switzerland) here and
to the final
piece “Du lustige Filifausel" (2
min.) here.
CLAYBIRD'S LULLABY (2014) is composed by Latvian composer Santa Ratniece, who
has written this work especially for clay birds (ocarinas), made by
children in Ziemeli orphanage in Riga under the guidance of swedish
artist Knutte Wester who has initiated this project. The clay birds in
this piece portray the lives of nine children and is accompanied by
eight voices and cello. Listen to the piece here.
CANTICUM CANTICORUM (2014) is a project, inspired by texts of “Song of Songs”
and realized with the participation of Latvian Radio Choir (conductor Kaspars Putniņš), ensemble SARBAND (leader Vladimir Ivanoff)
and six composers that represent the northern Europe and the Middle
East: Lasse Thoresen (Norway), Toivo Tulev (Estonia), Mārtiņš
Viļums and Santa Ratniece (both Latvia); Bushra El-Turk (Lebanon /
UK) and Vladimir Ivanoff (Bulgaria / Germany). Here is a little
insight into the making of the
project.
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