LITHUANIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
(artistic director and conductor Sergej Krylov)
Soloists: ŁUKASZ DŁUGOSZ (flute, Poland), AISTĖ BALIUNYTĖ-DAILIDIENĖ (harp)
Conductor ROBERTAS ŠERVENIKAS
ANTONIO SALIERI – Symphony in D major La Veneziana
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART – Concerto for flute, harp and orchestra in C major, KV 299
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
Tonight, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, conductor Robertas Šervenikas, and soloists send musical postcards from Vienna at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. The first postcard shows that Italian composer Antonio Salieri arrived in Vienna at the age of sixteen and lived there until his death. In the second half of the 18th century, Salieri was the most influential musician in Vienna. For 40 years, he served as the Imperial Kapellmeister and composer, as well as the conductor and director of the Italian opera. In his Symphony in D major, La Veneziana, he used the musical material from the overtures to two of his operas, La scuola dei gelosi (The School of Jealousy) and La pertenza inaspettata (The Unexpected Departure). The second postcard features Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Concerto for flute, harp, and orchestra in C major, KV 299, his only work in which the solo part is written for the harp: in those days, a harp and flute duo was truly unusual. The brilliant composer made sure that the soloists could show what they were capable of: the parts are exceptionally complex.
The solo parts will be performed by harpist Aistė Baliunytė-Dailidienė and Polish flutist Łukasz Długosz. The flutist studied at the Munich University of Music, the Paris Conservatoire, and Yale University. He has won international competitions and performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Herkulessaal in Munich, and others. Baliunytė-Dailidienė, a graduate of the Paris Conservatoire, is a prize winner of many international competitions, a participant in various music projects, actively performing as a soloist as well as a member of diverse chamber ensembles and orchestras in Lithuania and abroad.
The third postcard mentions Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fourth symphony in B flat major, Op. 60, written by the enamoured and happy composer in 1806. Although his engagement to Countess Josephine Brunsvik was broken off and his deafness was getting worse, echoes of the happiness, joy, and bright hopes he experienced can be heard in this frequently performed, most romantic of Beethoven’s symphonies.
