Tatjana OSTROVSKA
Anete TOČA
Mārtiņš CIRCENIS – section principal
Programme:
Aram Khachaturian
Bruno Mantovani
Darius Milhaud and others
TrioNYX– flautist Anete Toča, violinist Tatjana Ostrovska and pianist Ieva Sarja – have invited clarinettist Mārtiņš Circenis to join them and put together a delightful programme of beautiful rarities by the romantically playful Frenchmen Fauré, Milhaud and Honegger, as well as the “Beethoven of the flute” Kuhlau, the sabre-brandishing Khachaturian and the American blender of styles Paul Schoenfield.
Anete Toča is a member of the LNSO and principal flute of the Professional Symphonic Band “Rīga”, an active chamber musician who has also made a substantial contribution to music education. The dedicated chamber musician Tatjana Ostrovska plays in the LNSO second violin section; nominated for the Latvian Grand Music Award 2013 for outstanding ensemble work, Mārtiņš Circenis is principal clarinet of the LNSO, while the pianist Ieva Sarja teaches chamber ensemble at the Emīls Dārziņš Music School and piano at the Pāvuls Jurjāns Music School.
Playfulness, tenderness, lightly ornamented reverie, dances in Armenian and Jewish rhythms – such is the range of the new programme by trioNYXin this concert. The first half of the evening is French music. Arthur Honegger’s Rhapsody is a master class in musical elegance, Darius Milhaud’s suite sparkles with cosy, faintly ironic wit, while Gabriel Fauré’s “Dolly Suite” shows us the little animals and pet names that filled the world of a three- or four-year-old French girl – Dolly – at the very end of the 19th century.
The second half opens with the classically clear and superbly built music of Friedrich Kuhlau, a reminder of this nowadays slightly forgotten Danish composer who was called “the Beethoven of the flute”, since so many of his works give pride of place to that very instrument. Aram Khachaturian’s trio brings Armenian vignettes into the programme, while the music of the American Paul Schoenfield lets us hear his particular interest in the Talmud and in Jewish musical traditions. As a whole, the programme is built so that listeners can fully appreciate the qualities of fine chamber music and of these excellent musicians – springy interplay, sweet-toned close-ups and the ability to keep a musical conversation sharp in any combination of instruments.