Lnso, Poska Un Brāmss by Lutosławski, Brahms, Frá (2023/2023), Hljómsveitarstjóri Kristiina Poska, Great Guild, Riga, Latvia

At the April 21 concert, the orchestra's chief guest conductor Kristina Poska and the LNSO will give the audience a performance of the energetic symphonic opus Chordae by the contemporary Estonian composer Ilo Krigula , and with the participation of the great cellist Kristaps Berg, they will perform the tense Cello Concerto by the Polish composer Witold Lutoslavska. Brahms, on the other hand, was already 43 years old when his First Symphony was premiered. He was undeniably a harsh self-critic and claimed that from the beginning of composing to the final revisions, work on the First took place over a period of 21 years. He once told his friend that he would never compose a symphony, because "how can it be done when a giant like Beethoven composed before us?" And yet - today we have both nine outstanding examples of Beethoven's symphony genre