Concerto Ch+Ch ( Challenger and Chernobyl 86) for alto sax, string orchestra and piano duo.1/1

Live from Music Biennale Zagreb, Croatia, 1989
Composer Egils Straume .
The Riga Piano Duo - Nora Novik and Raffi Kharajanyan
Conductor- Saulius Sondeckis..Soloist - Egils Straume alto saxophone.
The Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra.

Previously unknown in America, but widely acclaimed in Europe, the Baltic States and Eastern Europe, The Riga Piano Duo has achieved legendary fame throughout its thirty-nine year artistic career. The Riga Piano Duo has toured extensively in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Scandinavian countries, Israel, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, Russia, and all the Baltic countries. In addition to performances at prestigious international festivals in Russia and Europe, this dynamic duo has also made frequent guest appearances with major orchestras of Eastern Europe. The duo's most recent CD recording features a piano cycle of eighteen Sketches for piano duet by the Russian composer, Valery Gavrilin from St. Petersburg.
Conductor - Saulius Sondeckis
Over the 50 years of his career as a conductor, he has given over 3,000 concerts in almost all European countries, the USA, Japan, Cuba, Canada, Taiwan and South Korea. He has been welcomed by audiences at many famous concert halls, such as Amsterdams Concertgebouw, Berlins Grand Philharmonic Hall, Leipzigs Gewandhaus, Viennas Musikverein and Paris Pleyel Hall, and festivals, including the Salzburger Festspiele, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Echternach Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Ivo Pogorelich Festival in Bad Wörishofen, the Stockholm Royal Festival, and Svyatoslav Richters December Musical Evenings festival in Moscow
The Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra is based in Vilnus, having been formed in the 1960's by Saulius Sondeckis. The young group was shortly to receive the Herbert von Karajan Gold Medal, which embarked them on an international career. Visits to the Berlin Philharmonie, London's Festival Hall and the Carnegie Hall in New York confirmed their status as an outstanding ensemble. Since then they have made many tours, more recently associated with Yehudi Menuhin, who became their enthusiastic conductor and champion. They have made a number of recordings and are frequently in radio studios.


The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida, United States, at 11:39 a.m. EST
The Chernobyl disaster, was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (then part of the Soviet Union), now in Ukraine.
It is considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history and the only level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. It resulted in a severe release of radioactivity following a massive power excursion that destroyed the reactor. Most fatalities from the accident were caused by radiation poisoning.The Chernobyl disaster triggered the release of substantial amounts of radiation into the atmosphere in the form of both particle and gaseous radioisotopes, and is the most significant unintentional release of radiation into the environment to date. It has been suggested that the Chernobyl disaster released as much as 400 times the radioactive contamination of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
... (more info)
(less info)

Category:

Music