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Latvia's prodigal son returns to the golden hall of the Latvian National Opera House for two superb evenings with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.

A beautiful performance worth quarantining for as Latvia leads the charge to preserve art and culture. 

With four singers making their debuts and two more experienced singers making strong impression, Latvian opera singing appears to be in safe hands.

The Latvian Radio Choir's 24 singers display exceptional virtuosity in the service of a varied programme of contemporary spiritual works.

Composer-pianist, Vestards Shimkus gives a compelling rendition of his imaginative 9 etudes Dreamscapes, while his Bach-Busoni 9 Chorale Preludes offers more mixed results. 

The Latvian Radio Choir, coupled with the Sinfonietta Rīga Orchestra under the conductor Sigvards Kļava give an ethereal rendition of four contemporary Latvian composers in Riga Cathedral.

Almost all the singers, orchestra and conductor were Italian, but it was local soprano Elīna Šimkus and the Latvian Radio Choir who sang Purcell’s magnum opus as if to the English manner born.

In the tiny Baltic state of Latvia, music loving locals are hell-bent on going for Baroque.

Local soprano Elīna Šimkus was a fascinating combination of Farinelli and Emma Kirkby.

Piano, cello and marimba prove a tricky combination for Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, in a concert which interleaved them with newly written pieces by Latvian composers.

Problems of balance in the first half of Sinfonietta Riga's "European Christmas" concert are followed by excellent Kraus and Haydn in the second.

Edmunds Freibergs and Latvian National Opera give us a Fledermaus that's high on style and sheer entertainment, with a notable Adele from Inga Šļubovska.

Remplaçant au pied levé sa consœur qui avait fait une mauvaise chute dans la rue, Mao Fujita a repris à l'Opéra de Riga son programme du récital de la veille.

Le lauréat des Concours Clara Haskil et Tchaïkovski a livré un récital énergique au Festival de Musique de Riga Jurmala.

Im intimen Rahmen gibt sich der Cello-Jungstar mit drei von Johann Sebastian Bachs Cellosuiten die Ehre.