Summer Night Chamber At Zuzeum Art Centre

For the fourth year, Zuzeum Art Centre and chamber orchestra Sinfonietta Rīga invites the audience to spend a few velvety warm August nights in the company of wonderful music and friendly atmosphere. For a long weekend, let’s enjoy chamber music masterpieces from various eras, presented by the brilliant soloists of Sinfonietta Rīga, and not yet think about the autumn for a little while.

This year’s concert guests will be presented a new experience of the ‘Summer Night Chamber Music’ concerts – musical experience will take place in the Great Exhibition Hall.  As a part of the concert programme, a special selection of paintings from the Zuzāns Collection will be exhibited. In line with the  diverse musical programme of the four evenings, the selection will consist of art created from the 19th century to the present day – modern references to luxurious baroque, classical and industrial romanticism. In this interaction of music and art, every concert guest will have the chance to find their own associative connections. 

26 AUGUST AT 20.00
BLACK ANGELS

Franz Schubert Death and the Maiden. String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810

George Crumb Black Angels

🎻 Sinfonietta Rīga string quartet:
Agnese Kanniņa – violin
Kristiāna Krūskopa – violin
Artūrs Gailis – viola
Kārlis Klotiņš – cello
Normunds Šnē – sound engineer

🎩 In his string quartet Death and the Maiden Franz Schubert invokes a scene befitting the Romantic age, in which Death becomes the lover of the Maiden. The young maiden yearns to live, but Death declares then in his arms she will enjoy the sweetest sleep. George Crumb wrote Black Angels impacted by the Vietnam War, and intended it to be a parable of our troubled times. From the harmonic ideals of Schubert’s era, the audience is thrown into the post-Babel world of fallen angels, numerology and confusion, into which Crumb has woven also the motif of Schubert’s quartet. This is going to be a surreal adventure that ties into our current reality.

More information: Sinfoniettariga.lv
Tickets: Zuzeum.com un Bilesuserviss.lv. 

Concert tickets are available in several price categories:
Standart concert ticket: 22 EUR
Concert ticket with discount (students, seniors): 11 EUR
Concert series subscription (all four concerts): 55 EUR

Tickets are limited. Purchased tickets cannot be refunded or exchanged.

The entrance doors are opened at 19.00. The concert starts at 20.00. Free car parking is available in the event area, but the number of parking spaces is limited. Seats at the event are not numbered, so we invite you to arrive on time to take the most comfortable place!

Zuzeum Cafe and Bar will be opened at the event. Entrance with food and drinks purchased outside the Zuzeum is prohibited. 

*By attending this event, you agree to have photos or videos of you or your children taken for Zuzeum marketing purposes. You can refuse to be photographed or filmed by informing the photographer or camera person