Tuesday, March 16, 2021
The Riga Jurmula Festival announces a new documentary
The Riga Jurmala Music Festival has announced the commissioning of a documentary dedicated to honouring the great Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons (1943-2019), due for broadcast in early 2022. Mariss Jansons: A Tale of Four Orchestras will be directed and conceived by Peter Maniura, the
Gramophone Award-winning television producer and director with more than 25 years’ experience in music and arts broadcasting at the BBC, the European Broadcasting Union and independently. Watch a preview here:
The Jansons story will be told through the eyes of the musicians from the four ensembles of which Jansons was either Music Director or Chief Conductor: the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Paying tribute to the legacy of a conductor that marked each of them, the orchestras will contribut