TCO CHAMBER MUSIC. SOMETHING IS BORNE ON THE WIND

OLGA VORONOVA, YANA MÄGILA, LISANNE ALTROV violin

LAUR EENSALU viola

LEHO KARIN, THEODOR SINK cello

ANDRES KUNGLA contrabass

KAIRI VAVILOV piano

Programme:

Maurice Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello

Gioachino Rossini Duet for Cello and Contrabass

Robert Schumann Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44

A broader understanding of the programme’s works begins with the perception of the time and period of their creation.

The richly progressing patterns of harmony, so prominent in Maurice Ravel’s earlier creations, can in “Sonata for Violin and Cello” clearly be sensed to make much more room for the melodic figure.

Although Gioachino Rossini is primarily famous as an opera composer, chamber music is not entirely unknown among his works, the duet from 1824 however is a somewhat peculiar gem. Even more surprising than the composition is how the composer has managed to combine the tonal colourings of two great string instruments and prove that they can be harnessed to convey to the audience both deep-timbred and intimate melodiousness and a technical firework with enthralling dramatics.

Robert Schumann’s opulent “Piano Quintet” is the first work in the history of music wherein the piano is joined with a classic string quartet – two violins, viola and cello. The reason for the composer’s preference was awareness of the fact that by the time of its creation, the string quartet had become one of the most valued chamber music combinations and what’s even more important – was moving from the salon to the concert hall.