Riga - St. Gertrude Old Church - my walk around. Art Nouveau architecture in Riga, part 6.
Riga - St. Gertrude Old Church - my walk around. Art Nouveau architecture in Riga, part 6.
Music by In Every Way, Freedom Trail Studio.
Riga / Short Movie
Exploring Beautiful Art Nouveau architecture, cozy coffee & tea shops in Riga - Latvia.
Music: MULLE - YOU BRING ME JOY
Architecture of Riga. Архитектура Риги.
Beautiful Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) buildings from old Riga.
Art Nouveau in Riga
A short montage of the highlights of guided Art Nouveau tour in Riga, Latvia.
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Peterhouse Choir Tour 2019 - Baltic States
Video diary of the Peterhouse Choir Tour 2019 to the Baltic States. In June/July 2019 the Choir visited Vilnius, Trakai, Klaipeda and the Dead Dunes of Nida in Lithuania, and Riga in Latvia.
Including footage from our concerts:
Stanford, Beati quorum via, performed live at St Casimir's Church, Vilnius
Aston, Fountain of sweets, performed live at Old St Gertrude's Church, Riga
Filmed and edited by Seth Aycock
Riga wonderful Art Nouveau architecture.
#Riga #Art Nouveau #Jugendstil
New Saint Gertrudes Lutheran Church
Brīvības iela 119 is the new church of Saint Ģertrūde, which was built in 1906 by Vilhelms Strīks (1864-1928) to accommodate the ever-increasing population. The church is notable for its octagonal copper-covered tower.
This was the site of the Vilhelms Strīks, which has now moved further down the street. This was also the site of the 'big pump', a closed artesian well with good water, which was erected in the 19th century near the Saint Petersburg district Boundary Mark, where the city ended.
Old Riga Hotel Vecriga, Rīga, Latvia, HD Review
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Old Riga Hotel Vecriga is located in a 15th-century building in the heart of Riga’s historic quarter. It offers rooms with flat-screen satellite TV, a safe and free Wi-Fi access.
All the major landmarks of the historic district are near Vecriga. The National Opera and St. Peter's Church are both within 850 ft. The Freedom Monument and House of the Blackheads are both 1200 ft away.
The Vecriga has an extensive collection of contemporary artwork. Guests of the hotel can book excursions, theater and concert tickets right at the front desk.
The hotel’s restaurant, the Palete, serves traditional Latvian dishes. Its head chef has won numerous awards. In the summer, guests can get their meals on the terrace.
City Center is a great choice for travelers interested in Culture , Food and Architecture .
A walk in Riga. Art Nouveau architecture, part 7.
Fairytale city - Art Nouveau architecture, part 7
St. Alexander Nevsky Church, Riga
Music by Love Song, Max McFerren
Aivars Kalējs – Per aspera ad astra
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Cristiano (Kris) Rizzotto, organ
Recorded live in concert at the 1884 Walcker & Co. organ, Opus 413 (IV/P/124), in Rīgas Doms (Rīga Dom Cathedral), Latvia.
My tribute to the composer, Aivars Kalējs, in the occasion of his birthday on 22 April. I was honored to have him change stops for me on that day. This piece was dedicated to the memory of the children of Latvia who died during the Soviet deportations.
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Padomju deportācijās mirušo Latvijas bērnu piemiņai.
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Having performed in North America, Europe and South America, Latvian Brazilian organist Cristiano Rizzotto (Kristiāns) is an active recitalist who frequently premières and performs works of contemporary composers. Composers such as Carson Cooman, Composer in Residence at Harvard University, Antoine Giovannini (France), and Aivars Kalējs, Concert Organist at Rīgas Doms (Latvia), have dedicated pieces to him. Cristiano the Organist & Choirmaster at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Golden Valley, Twin Cities, MN. He is the Director of the Good Shepherd International Concert Series. Cristiano became a published composer after his Toccata was released by Wayne Leupold Editions in March 2014.
Rizzotto was named a member of The Diapason‘s 20 Under 30 Class of 2017. He was previously the organist at Benedictine Abbey in Rio de Janeiro, owner of one of the oldest organs in South America and where the Carioca monks have kept the tradition of the chants and liturgy alive since the 16th century.
Cristiano is currently a doctoral candidate at the American Organ Institute at the University of Oklahoma, under Dr. John Schwandt. Rizzotto holds a Bachelor’s degree in piano performance from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Magna cum Laude, 2010), and a Master’s degree in Sacred Music from East Carolina University (2013).
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Per aspera ad astra – Aivars Kalējs (b. 1951)
Aivars Kalējs is one of the most important Latvian musicians of his generation. He studied composition and organ at the Latvian Conservatoire in Riga (1969 – 1977) under Ādolfs Skulte and Nikolajs Vanadziņš respectively. Having performed in almost all the European countries, Japan, U.S. and Canada, he is internationally known as a recitalist, composer, and a musicologist with published articles about organ history.
Kalējs worked on the monument board of the Latvian Ministry of Culture between 1980 and 1985. He focused on the history and preservation of the organs in Latvia and was able to add 250 organs to the country’s index of protected cultural monuments. He has been the organist at the Dome Cathedral in Riga for almost forty years. Kalējs also holds the position of organist at the New Church of St. Gertrude. He has written pieces for orchestra and for various instruments, but his organ works occupy the central place among his compositions.
Right before Christmas in 1989, when Latvia was claiming its rightful independence from Soviet occupation, Kalējs finished writing Per aspera ad astra, which has become known as one of his most colorful and impressive organ works. In the composer’s words, this piece is “dedicated to the memory of the children of Latvia who died during the Soviet deportations.”
The Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states in 1949 sent about 94,000 Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians to inhospitable regions of Siberia. Latvians were almost 50% of the group, and 72% of the people deported were women or children under the age of sixteen. This operation aimed to forcefully collectivise rural households, and to eliminate all support to those who were against the communist occupation. The prisoners were sent to the death camps “forever,” with no passports, only identification cards. Because the Soviet authorities failed to provide housing and clothing, and conditions of forced work were so hard, the death rate among deportees was very high. The Soviet deportations are considered an act of genocide. According to Heinrichs Strods, “Soviet prison camps could also be called death camps. Unlike the Nazi camps where people were killed systematically, the Soviet camps took their prisoners to slow painful death by imposing hard work and life conditions. Mostly the male prisoners died, families lost their fathers. A large number of children spent their childhoods in Siberia.”
Per aspera ad astra (from Latin, through hardships to the stars) is a programmatic and very powerful piece. It depicts the story of exile with a growing sense of despair through mostly downward motions and descending figures that culminates on an apotheotic stretto that shifts the direction of the phrases and melodies upwards, towards the stars in heaven. The dream of lost childhood fades into birdsong on a lonely 1’ flute in ppp.
Latvijas simtgade ērģeļu balsīs Latvijas stāsti
Latvian organ music - Letters from Latvia
Old St Gertrude church, Riga, Latvia. LIVE recording.
Programm:
0:00
Alfrēds Kalniņš (1879 – 1951): Prelūdija
(organist Aigars Reinis)
4:37
Maija Einfelde (1939): Trīs jūras dziesmas (1994)
(organist Larisa Bulava)
16:53
Jēkabs Nīmanis (1980): Selonia (2016)
(organist Aivars Kalējs)
20:24
Indulis Kalniņš (1918 - 1986): Tokāta sol minorā (1974)
(organist Aivars Kalējs)
27:16
Aivars Kalējs (1951):
Per aspera ad astra/Caur ērkšķiem uz zvaigznēm (1989)
(organist Inese Paiča)
39:56
Georgs Pelēcis (1947):
Purgatorio/Šķīstīšanās (2018, pirmatskaņojums)
(organ duo Ilze Reine un Aigars Reinis)
51:16
Dzintra Kurme – Gedroica (1968): Divas dejas ērģelēm solo:
• Malagenja (2007)
55:31
• Minuetto dramatico (2009, pirmatskaņojums)
(organist Liene Andreta Kalnciema)
59:28
Aivars Kalējs (1951):
Tokāta par korāļa ‘’Gods Dievam augstībā/
Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’’ tēmu (1998)
(organist Liene Andreta Kalnciema)
Interior of Saint Peter's Church
History of Saint Peter's Church, Riga and it Tower - It was first mentioned in 1209, as the Merchant's Church. At the time, it was intended to be the main one for the city. Originally, it was Catholic, but became Lutheran during the Reformation in 1523. During warfare with the Livonian Order in 1297, it was used for catapult bombarding of the Wittenstein Castle. In 1408-09 the Rostock architect I. Rummeschotel added a new altar area to the existing building. More construction took place in 1456, and by 1473 the old church was completed.
The tower, originally of wood, was rebuilt a number of times. It once collapsed in a storm, totally destroying a nearby house and killing 8 people. It then it burned down for the first time in 1721, and it is said that the Emperor Peter the Great himself helped fight the fire, and then immediately issued the orders for its reconstruction. He ordered the chief architect to sit on top of the weather vane at the completion of the work, drink a glass of wine, and throw the glass to the ground. The shattered pieces were to be counted, and the number of pieces would show how many centuries the spire would survive. The glass landed on a passing hay cart and survived, with only the stem breaking -- two pieces. Sure enough, the spire was destroyed by fire again -- two hundred years later, on Saint Peter's Day, 1941. For many years it was thought that the church was accidentally hit in the crossfire of battle; however it has since been discovered that it was deliberately set on fire by retreating Soviet troops as a propaganda move to blame the Germans for its destruction. There is now an elevator to an observation platform from which you get by far the best view of Riga City.
The interior of Saint Peters Church is made up of red brick walls with arch ceilings. Doting the walls are tombstones and plaques and crests of knights and noblemen. Located in one corner is a white marble Statue of Jesus. Legends has it, the red streaks seen through out it represents Jesus bleeding for mankind. When this statue was carved the red streaks were not visible to the sculptor, but later appeared. The flowers in front are replaced daily as well is the candle.
Along one wall is the Memorial to the Victims of the Communism Terror in Latvia. This memorial is done in black marble, and is highly polished. The inscription on the black marble slab reads:
DAUDZ MOCEKLI IR IZREDZETU TEV MANA MAZA TEVIJA
The Statue of Roland designed by Wilhelm Neumann, Roland is the nephew of Charlemagne. The statue is 6.3-meters tall, and it was dedicated on the 11th of December 1896. The statue faced the city Rathaus (Town Hall) and was traditional in style. Roland's sword was the point from which different distances in Riga and Latvia were counted.
The monument survived World War II, but in 1945 the Soviet authorities ordered that the sculpture should be torn down and its base should be destroyed. The sculpture was damaged in the fall but is still exhibited at Saint Peters Church. The style of the work is similar to the early Renaissance German master Peter Visher Senior. On the 9th of December 1999, a new base was made, and the Roland statue was exhibited. In May in the year 2000 a copy of the whole statue by Edvins Krumins was placed on the base.
Series of pictures of the 1941 destruction of Saint Peters Church Tower by retreating Soviet Troops from the German Army.
Rigas Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran Church and Lielie kapsēta.wmv
May 18, 2010
Riga, Latvia
Rigas Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran Church and Lielie kapsēta The Great Cemetery
Come join TheCeļotājs journey back in time with another visit to Rīgas Augšāmcelšanās Evaņģēliski luteriskā draudze Rigas Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran Church ANNO 1891 located at Klusā 4, Rīga, LV-1013 Latvia and Lielie kapsēta The Great Cemetery
The New Chapel is designed in Neo-Romanesque style by the architect Neuburger from 1863 till 1891. K. Felsko was master of works and F. Engelsons was engineer. This was the fourth chapel built in the cemetery from 1891 to 1892, with a surface area of about 500 square meters. It is situated in Lielie kapsēta the Great Cemetery; now this part of the cemetery is known as Memoriālais parks Memorial Park. It used to be one of the most beautiful chapels in Europe, and now it is part of the architectural ensemble Lielie kapsēta.
New Town Riga - Art Nouveau architecture, part 2.
New Town Riga - Art Nouveau architecture, part 2. 30.06.2019.
Art Nouveau and Latvian wooden architecture in Riga.
Архитектура в стиле Модерн и деревянные дома Нового Города в Риге.
Music by Electrodoodle, Kevin MacLeod.
Композиция Electrodoodle принадлежит исполнителю Kevin MacLeod. Лицензия: Creative Commons Attribution (
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Lutheran church in Baltezers latvia
Lutheran church in Baltezers Latvia
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Baltezera Church is located on a luxurious site between the Large and Small Baltezers. From the year 1772 to 1775 it was built by the Master Bernhard Joachim from Mazungen, but the history of Ādažu parish started as early as in the 13th century.
Art Nouveau Buildings Riga, Latvia
Largest concentration of Art Nouveau buildings in the world
Latvian War of Independence | Wikipedia audio article
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Latvian War of Independence
00:01:47 1 Soviet offensive
00:03:00 2 Liberation of Kurzeme and the coup d'etat
00:04:13 3 German–Latvian conflict
00:06:04 4 Bermondt offensive
00:06:50 5 Timeline
00:06:58 5.1 1918
00:08:01 5.2 1919
00:11:12 5.3 1920
00:11:57 6 See also
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The Latvian War of Independence (Latvian: Latvijas brīvības cīņas, literally, Latvia's freedom struggles), sometimes called the Latvian War of Liberation (Latvian: Latvijas atbrīvošanas karš, War of Latvian Liberation), was a series of military conflicts in Latvia between 5 December 1918, after the newly proclaimed Republic of Latvia was invaded by Soviet Russia, and the signing of the Latvian-Soviet Riga Peace Treaty on 11 August 1920.The war can be divided into a few stages: Soviet offensive, German-Latvian liberation of Kurzeme and Riga, Estonian-Latvian liberation of Vidzeme, Bermontian offensive, Latvian-Polish liberation of Latgale.
The war involved Latvia (its provisional government supported by Estonia, Poland and the Western Allies—particularly the navy of United Kingdom) against the Russian SFSR and the Bolsheviks' short-lived Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic. Germany and the Baltic nobility added another level of intrigue, initially being nominally allied to the Nationalist/Allied force but attempting to jockey for German domination of Latvia. Eventually tensions flared up after a German coup against the Latvian government, leading to open war.
Following a cease-fire, a ploy was developed by the Germans, nominally dissolving into the West Russian Volunteer Army led by Gen. Pavel Bermont-Avalov. This West Russian Volunteer Army included Germans and former Russian prisoners of war nominally allied with the White Army in the Russian Civil War, but both Bermondt-Avalov and von der Goltz were more interested in eliminating the nationalists than fighting the Bolsheviks.
Certain episodes of the Latvian Independence War were also part of the Polish-Soviet War, particularly the Battle of Daugavpils.
Riga - Alberta iela - Art Nouveau architecture, part 8.
Riga - Alberta iela - Art Nouveau architecture, part 8.
Riga - Alberta iela and my walk to Pulkveža Brieža iela.
L'histoire de l'architecture de Riga
L'histoire de l'architecture de Riga de 13eme siècle à aujourd`hui
Folk music | Wikipedia audio article
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Folk music
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Folk music includes traditional folk music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that.
Starting in the mid-18th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (third) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms. Smaller, similar revivals have occurred elsewhere in the world at other times, but the term folk music has typically not been applied to the new music created during those revivals. This type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, and others. While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in Romanian it shares a different name, and it often does not share the same people and animals as traditional music.