SUEČIUOSE SOPNIA MAENO IR MARTYNAS STAKIONIS by Various, lør. 19 nov. 2022, Fra (2022/2022), Dirigent Martynas Stakionis, Lithuanian National Philharmonic Concert Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania

The National Philharmonic hosts German-born Sophia Maeno, winner of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation’s Live Music Now Award and the Richard Wagner Union Prize. She has made memorable appearances in operas at the Schwerin, Hamburg and Erfurt theatres, and has been a guest artist-in-residence at Chemnitz for the 2017–2018 season. Together with Lithuanian musicians she will perform six songs by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky based on poems by Maurice Maeterlinck. Characterised by a finely tuned harmony between text and music, simplicity and delicate instrumentation, these songs evoke associations with Gustav Klimt’s fragile paintings. The Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Martynas Stakionis. He has studied in Hamburg and Antwerp, and has a strong interest in the operatic genre and large-scale compositions.Under his baton the LNSO will perform Austrian composer Franz Schreker’s piece for orchestraVorspiel zu einem Drama (1913) and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7, which is also known by many as the “Titanic”. The composer himself said: “I proudly regard the Symphony in A major as one of my finest works.”