On Sunday, August 8, a concert by the artist from Vilnius - Renata Marcinkutė Lesieur took place in the Licheń basilica.
Professor of the Lithuanian Academy of Sacred Music and organist at St. Kazimierz in Vilnius. For exceptional creative activity and promotion of organ music in Lithuania and abroad, she was awarded, inter alia, Medal of the Order of Merit for the President of Lithuania of Lithuania (2015); Medal of Honor Carry Your Light and Believe issued by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania (2017); St. Krzysztof (2021) for his services to Vilnius - the capital of Lithuania.
A representative of Lithuanian organ music in many countries in Europe and America. It supports and promotes the music of Lithuanian composers.
She conducted master classes in organ at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg (Austria), the Academy of Music Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań (Poland), the Nino Rota Conservatory in Monopoli (Italy) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
A long-time member of the organizing committee of the International MK of the Čiurlionis, as well as a jury member of this and many other international competitions. Winner of this competition in 1991.
The concert opened with the famous and full of youthful passion Toccata and the fugue in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. Two Preludes by Stanisław Moniuszko evoked the intimate atmosphere of a nineteenth-century salon, and Gabriela Fauré's 'Après un rêve' introduced the audience to the fleeting dream mood of lovers walking together on the road to light.
The Lithuanian organist also presented the Fuga in C sharp minor by Mikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis, the most outstanding figure of Lithuanian culture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries - a composer, painter and graphic artist, who in his work tried to synthesize painting and music, believing that "There are no boundaries between arts".
The repertoire also includes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 3rd Piano Fantasy in D minor KV 397, Tomas Albinoni's Adagio in G minor, Chorale No. 3 in A minor by the father of French organ symphony - Cesar Franck and Toccata - Final of the 5th Symphony by Charles Marie Widor, continuator of the French symphony started by Franck.
Text and photos: Sanctuary Press Office
For the next concert, we invite the audience to the basilica on Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 14.30.
Michal Novenko from Prague will play pieces composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Antonio Correa Braga, Franz Liszt, Leon Boëllman.
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