Timeless Origin. Orchestra Riga
16 April 2026, 19:00 - VEF Culture Palace (Ropažu iela 2, Riga)
Orchestra “Rīga”
Conductor: Karolis Variakojis
Soloist: Kristians Kalva - trumpet
Marina Gribinčika “Poseidons” for trumpet and wind orchestra (world premiere)
Oļesja Tumane “Emanations of Time” (world premiere)
Lauri Marjakangas “Let the Wind Roam Free” (Latvian premiere)
Vykintas Baltakas “Cumulus” (Latvian premiere)
Kristjan Kõrver new work – world premiere
Timeless Origin invites us to listen beyond the human scale. Here, the festival motto We Live in Different Times points not only to social or historical experience, but also to the existence of another kind of time alongside it—the time of elements and cycles, present long before us and continuing long after. This programme reaches toward a broader horizon: toward a sense of origin before time itself, toward a source in which movement and eternity have not yet been separated.
The language of the programme is nature. Vykintas Baltakas’s Cumulus introduces the movement of clouds: orchestral layers condense and disperse, merge and dissolve like air masses continuously rewriting the sky. From air, the music moves into water. In the world premiere of Marina Gribinčika’s Poseidon, the force of the sea unfolds—wave, depth, pressure, and unceasing flow.
A new work by Oļesja Tumane, also receiving its world premiere, adds another natural dimension of time to the programme. Drawing on philosophical reflections on time—particularly the thought of Plotinus—the composition unfolds through the tension between linear progression and cyclical, endless motion. A recurring musical idea returns and gradually transforms, like a natural process in which repetition never produces exact sameness. Time here is experienced not only as movement, but as memory and perception, inviting listeners to reflect on how much they retain and how attuned they are to subtle, almost imperceptible change.
The axis connecting these elements is wind. In Kristjan Kõrver’s work, the wind follows its own cycle—“toward the south… toward the north… and back again”—remaining unpredictable to the very end. We hear its presence, yet cannot trace its origin or destination. Lauri Marjakangas’s Let the Wind Roam Free continues this idea within the Sámi cultural context, where openness, movement, and the rhythms of nature shape everyday life and determine the experience of time.