River of Time. Reinis Zariņš

17 April 2026, 19:00 - Spīķeri Concert Hall (Ģenerāļa Radziņa krastmala 3, Riga)

Reinis Zariņš, piano

PROGRAMME:

I

Arvo PÄRT (1935) Für Alina [1976]

Andris DZENĪTIS (1978) "Laikagraudi" (Timegrains) [world premiere!]

Pauls DAMBIS (1936) Sonata "Aizejošā laikmeta gars" (Spirit of the Passing Age) [world premiere!]

Žibuoklė MARTINAITYTĖ (1973) Polyphonies of Being [2022]

II

Marianna LIIK (1992) Climb the Light [2024]

Madeleine ISAKSSON (1956) Écrits sur l'eau [2020]

Tõnu KÕRVITS (1969) To the North… [2017]

Aleksandrs AVRAMECS (2000) Circadian [world premiere!]

Pēteris VASKS (1946) "Dzeguzes balss. Pavasara elēģija" (The Cuckoo's Voice. A Spring Elegy) [2021]

Time is not a uniform flow — it is a network of currents that carry us simultaneously forward and back, leave impressions, then erase them, and compel us to begin again. It is precisely in this way that the festival motto "We Live in Different Times" acquires concrete meaning: within a single concert, different generations, different tempi, and differing senses of time coexist. At the centre of the solo programme by Reinis Zariņš, one of Latvia's most distinguished pianists, are two new works specially commissioned for this concert. They foreground generational difference in the most vivid way: one is a work by the twenty-six-year-old Aleksandrs Avramecs, the other an opus by the ninety-year-old Pauls Dambis. These works embody two experiences that inhabit different rhythms: one speaks from today's sense of acceleration and ceaseless change, the other from a longer arc of time, in which return, scale, and memory matter. Together they form one axis of the programme: the river's flow as a conversation between generations.

A Nordic dimension is brought to the programme by Madeleine Isaksson's Écrits sur l'eau — music about traces and inscriptions on water that appear for an instant and immediately vanish. Water becomes a figure of time: the tide's ebb and flow, an infinite coursing, receding and running away. It is a work in which time is observed — as a surface upon which the echoes of a human life briefly glimmer. The programme also features the music of several other composers, broadening the map of the river of time with diverse vantage points on the experience of the present. In pianist Reinis Zariņš's interpretation, the concert becomes a concentrated portrait of contemporary existence: acceleration and silence, traces and vanishing, memory and flow in a single unbroken current.

Text by Santa Bušs, translation by Krists Auznieks
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