The LNSO Piano Trio is celebrating its fifth anniversary, and to mark the occasion has chosen to play as a quintet – nothing less than Schubert’s brilliant, love-filled “Trout Quintet”, which one could listen to again and again, and the trio will be joined by the viola section’s newly appointed assistant principal Pēteris Trasuns and the LNSO’s principal double bassist Oskars Bokanovs. There will also be a new work by Platons Buravickis, which the composer promises to write as a modernist yet accessible to everyone, and the seasons cycle by the great Buenos Aires tango master Piazzolla – and it should be noted that the trio’s musicians regularly perform at milonga evenings and are through-and-through insiders in the world of tango.
Platons Buravickis on the new work: “The piece dedicated to the LNSO Piano Trio, ‘A New Paragraph’ (Krasnaya stroka) was created to reveal and showcase this ensemble’s virtuosity and richness of emotion, although the piece itself is merely another new paragraph in the classical piano trio repertoire. The work’s story is about a problem of the industrial age – the individual and everyday life, human passions and emotions, and the all-saving spirituality of eternity that helps a person survive and find within themselves the strength to begin a new paragraph of their life each day the way it should be done – with an indent, or s krasnoy stroki.”
About Schubert’s Quintet: “In 1817 the popular song ‘Die Forelle’ (‘The Trout’) was born. Schubert’s friend Anselm Hüttenbrenner used to tell that the song was written before his very eyes at the composer’s favourite tavern ‘The Black Cat’ after emptying a couple of bottles of Hungarian red wine. This isn’t quite true – Schubert liked to impress his friends now and then. In fact, sketches of the song were made considerably earlier. The Quintet, whose fourth movement uses the song ‘Die Forelle’ as the theme for a set of variations, was most likely composed while travelling through Upper Austria in the summer of 1819, when Schubert was 22. The idea came from amateur cellist Sylvester Paumgartner, who suggested both the unusual scoring (piano quartet and double bass) and the inclusion of the ‘Die Forelle’ melody in the quintet.”
LNSO Piano Trio:
Indulis CINTIŅŠ – violin
Dace ZĀLĪTE – cello
Mārtiņš ZILBERTS – piano
Pēteris TRASUNS – viola
Oskars BOKANOVS – double bass
THE CONCERT PROGRAMME IS AVAILABLE HERE
The concert recording on Latvian Radio 3 is available HERE