Beethoven, Schumann and Vasks

Three outstanding and brilliant soloists have joined an ensemble that declaimed Latvia’s name during the country’s presidency of the European Union in the United Kingdom and will perform in Jūrmala.  All three of them have been linked to the UK for a longer period of time.  Since completing his studies, pianist Reinis Zariņš has popularised music as a free artist there, Eva Bindere, who is an associate professor at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music and has performed with the Oxford PhiloMusica orchestra in Britain, and cellist Kristīne Blaumane, who loves to perform as a soloist and as a member of various chamber music ensembles, holds first chair in the cello group of the London Philharmonic, which is conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.  The repertoire of the trio is stylistically diverse, with the ensemble selecting music composed by the impressionist Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, as well as the thoughtful portrait of Latvian nature by Pēteris Vasks, Flatland Landscapes.  Classical music from Vienna will be represented by Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D Major, also known as the “Ghost.”  Also on the programme is the lacy and melodic Second Piano Trio by the romanticist Robert Schumann, which was composed nearly half a century after Beethoven’s opus.

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio in D Major, op. 70, no. 1; Pēteris Vasks, Landscapes of Flatlands; Toru Takemitsu, Between Tides; Robert Schumann, Second Piano Trio in F Major, op. 80

Participants

Eva Bindere, violin
Kristīne Blaumane, cello
Reinis Zariņš, piano