Ode to Joy / Concert at the end of the Vilnius festival by Various, De la (2015/2015), Dirijor Modestas Pitrenas, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania

A large group of musicians from Lithuania, Latvia, Germany and Russia invites you to the closing celebration of the Vilnius festival and celebrates Latvia's presidency of the EU Council with the closing chords. On the stage of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater, the "Melancholic Waltz" of the neighboring country's music patriarch Emilis Dārziņis will be played - his only surviving symphonic score, in which the intonations of national music are skillfully combined with romantic harmonies. Sergei Prokofiev's Third Concerto, which poses a real challenge to the performer, will be played by Latvian pianist Vestardas Šimkus, who won the first prize in one of the most important events in the world of piano art - the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona. The festival is summed up by Ludwig van Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony - 19th century. the work that sounded extremely visionary and innovative at the beginning is one of the few works of world art that emerges like a musical peak. The symphony is being performed by an impressive team of musicians, including the musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra, even two mixed choirs - the Kaunas State and Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater choirs, Latvian, German and Russian soloists led by maestro Modesto Pitrėnas.