During the Christmas period, we tend to escape the harshness of reality and reach towards an ideal world, peace, and enlightenment. The path of light can be especially clear in music, which provides us with a perspective of a rich world of emotion. In the festive concert program, it will be revealed by the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, State Academic Choir Latvija, the Boys’ Choir of the Liepāja Music, Design and Art School, and singer Rihards Millers under conductor Vilhelms Vācietis.

Artists:

Rihards Millers – baritone

State Academic Choir Latvija (artistc director Māris Sirmais)

Boys’ Choir Group of the Liepāja Design and Art School (artistc director Ilze Balode)

Liepaja Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Vilhelms Vācietis

Program:

I part

Pauls DAMBIS (1936) “Concerto-fantasia on in nomine Albrecht Düreri”

Richard WAGNER (1813–1883) ‘Siegfried Idyll’

II part

Gustav MAHLER (1860–1911) Symphony No. 5 – ‘Adagietto’

Arthur HONEGGER (1892–1955) ‘A Christmas Cantata’