Alise GAVARE — clarinet
Aleksejs BAHIRS — violin
Konstantīns PATURSKIS — violin
Pēteris TRASUNS — viola
Dace ZĀLĪTE-ZILBERTE — cello
Rihards PLEŠANOVS — piano
Programme:
Pēteris PLAKIDIS Romantic Music for Violin, Cello and Piano
Paul HINDEMITH Clarinet Quintet, Op. 30
Paul SCHOENFIELD Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano
Aaron COPLAND Sextet for String Quartet, Clarinet and Piano
Modernism, national and ethnic identity, and a direct, unmediated connection with the listener are the threads that unite these four very different works. PLAKIDIS’s Romantic Music is a vivid and seminal example of Latvian neo-Romanticism. Hindemith’s Clarinet Quintet consists of varied, witty miniatures in which the composer plays with time, tempo and musical character. SCHOENFIELD’s Trio, inspired by Eastern European Hasidic melodies, at once recalls a dance, a prayer and a march. COPLAND’s Sextet is a colourful chamber-music masterpiece in which the freedom and vitality of the composer’s characteristic American sound are combined with refined musical construction.