On Maundy Thursday the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra in cooperation with the State Academic Choir “Latvija”, soprano Jolanta Strikaite and composer Kārlis Lācis playing the piano under the direction of the conductor Māris Sirmais will offer their listeners a musical contemplation of the mundane and the transcendental. 

The Adagietto from the Symphony No.5 by Gustav Mahler is one of the superhits of symphonic music – a dreamily lyrical love letter to his wife Alma, which is also like a well of light in this symphony, which starts off with a heroic struggle and turns into a funeral march.

Lightness and poignancy also intertwine in the key composition of the concert – the symphony “Stations of the Cross” by Kārlis Lācis, which premiered in 2015. 

The initiator of creation of the work is Māris Sirmais, the artistic director of the State Academic Choir “Latvija”, who has already had successful creative cooperation with Kārlis Lācis multiple times.