LNSO Season Opening. Casadesus and Beethoven

Perrine Madoeuf – soprano

Laura Grecka – mezzo-soprano

Mihails Čuļpajevs – tenor

Edgars Ošleja – bass

State Choir LATVIJA

Conductor Jean-Claude CASADESUS

Programme:

•      Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony no. 1

•      Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony no. 9

The beginning and end of a genius - two symphonies, two different Beethovens. In the First, a young, well-educated, aspiring revolutionary making his entrance and simultaneously abandoning the conservative canons. In the Ninth, he reaches an apex, an explosive climax of all-consuming sparks - he dreams of connecting millions and creates a hymn to unity and freedom. Beethoven’s devotion to music is rivalled by the conductor of tonight’s concert, the refined French maestro Casadesus, who rejoins the LNSO to fulfill his motto – “to serve, to venture, to give and to get”. In his view, music is the purest path towards absolute spirituality, and Beethoven would have certainly agreed. 

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