LVSO | L. van Beethoven. Symphony No. 9

CONCERT PROGRAM L. van Beethoven. Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 The concert is in one part, without an intermission. KAMILĖ BONTÉ, soprano GABRIELĖ KUPŠYTĖ, mezzo-soprano KAROLIS KAŠIUBA, tenor KOSTAS SMORIGINAS, baritone KAUNAS STATE CHOIR (Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Robertas Šervenikas) LITHUANIAN STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conductor GINTARAS RINKEVIČIUS The Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra , led by its Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius , invites listeners to experience one of the most impressive works by the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) – his final, the Ninth Symphony . It is considered an important stylistic bridge, a transition between the Classical and Romantic periods in Western music history. In the Ninth Symphony, L. van Beethoven used voices for the first time – four soloists and a choir sing Friedrich Schiller's famous poem “Ode to Joy” in the last, fourth movement of the symphony – which is why the symphony is also known as the Choral Symphony. L. van Beethoven diligently worked on every note of the symphony – his notes reveal that the composer considered and rejected more than 200 different variations of the “Ode to Joy” theme. Upon completing the work, L. van Beethoven offered the public a completely new approach to the symphony genre – it features four voices and a choir (until then, the symphony was considered an exclusively instrumental genre), an unusually large orchestra, and a duration of over an hour – not conforming to the standards of the time. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony in Vienna in 1824 was met with immense enthusiasm. “The audience greeted their hero with the greatest respect and sympathy, listened to his wonderful, magnificent work with bated breath, and erupted in thunderous applause after each movement. At the end of the symphony, the audience cheered L. van

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