Who are they?
After watching a DVD - Vilnius in summer is terminally boring - found myself flicking onto a recording of a Filharmonija concert, with a chamber orchestra playing what I eventually identified as Copland's Appalachian Spring, played very carefully and with not that much pzazz. Rather slowly, too....
But who's the chamber orchestra? Foreign or local? I thought it might not be a famous foreign orchestra seeing the many empty seats in the auditorium (plus the quality of the playing). Looked a bit more at the players, their hairstyles, the dress (one male cellist wore a black shirt when all others wore white ones) and decided it was a Lithuanian band. But I knew no-one in it, nor the conductor. Most unusual!
Turns out that it is the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra - with Daniel Gazon, a Belgian conductor. And then we have the Camerata Klaipeda, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Kaunas Chamber Orchestra, the St Christopher Chamber Orchestra and and and? Much music making, no?
But who's the chamber orchestra? Foreign or local? I thought it might not be a famous foreign orchestra seeing the many empty seats in the auditorium (plus the quality of the playing). Looked a bit more at the players, their hairstyles, the dress (one male cellist wore a black shirt when all others wore white ones) and decided it was a Lithuanian band. But I knew no-one in it, nor the conductor. Most unusual!
Turns out that it is the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra - with Daniel Gazon, a Belgian conductor. And then we have the Camerata Klaipeda, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Kaunas Chamber Orchestra, the St Christopher Chamber Orchestra and and and? Much music making, no?
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