Liepāja String Quartet. Kurzeme Festival RIMBENIEKS

Featuring:

Liepāja String Quartet

• Līga Baltābola (violin)
• Jānis Baltābols (violin)
• Annija Elizabete Meija (viola)
• Dina Puķīte (cello)

Programme:

• Johann Michael Haydn (1737–1806) Divertimento in D Major, MH319
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) Two movements from Four Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81
• Joachim Raff (1822–1882) String Quartet In the Ancient Style, Op. 192 No. 6

The walls of Aizpute Baptist Church have heard much—prayers, silence, and rich harmonies of song. Now, they will resonate with the warm voices of string instruments.

The Liepāja String Quartet—Līga Baltābola, Jānis Baltābols, Annija Elizabete Meija, and Dina Puķīte—invites you to a concert where music speaks in an ancient tongue, yet pulses with a contemporary heartbeat.

The programme features Johann Michael Haydn’s Divertimento, radiating the clarity and lightness of Classicism; two movements from Mendelssohn’s Four Pieces for String Quartet, where Romanticism is still young, inquisitive, and full of lyrical longing; and Joachim Raff’s String Quartet In the Ancient Style—a musical kaleidoscope where Baroque and Romanticism meet like two travellers crossing the same bridge.

The South Kurzeme Festival “Rimbenieks” is implemented within the framework of the “Liepāja 2027” programme, with funding provided by the Ministry of Culture, the State City of Liepāja, and the municipalities of South Kurzeme and Kuldīga. The festival is supported by LSEZ Terrabalt SIA.