Timeless Origin. Orchestra Riga
16 April 2026, 19:00 - VEF Culture Palace (Ropažu iela 2, Riga)
Kristians Kalva, trumpet
Orchestra "Rīga"
Conductor Karolis Variakojis
PROGRAMME:
Kristjan KÕRVER (1976) Ubi vult spirat (It blows where it chooses) [world premiere!]
Oļesja TUMANE (1994) Emanations of Time [world premiere!]
Lauri MARJAKANGAS (1994) Divtte biekka bosođit (Let the Wind Roam Free) [2024]
Vykintas BALTAKAS (1972) Cumulus [2024]
Marina GRIBINČIKA (1966) "Posseidon" for trumpet and wind orchestra [world premiere!]
Timeless Origin invites us to listen beyond the human scale. The festival motto "We Live in Different Times" here also means that alongside our hurried, social time there exists another — the time of elemental forces and cycles, which was present before us and will continue after us. "Timeless Origin" reaches toward this larger horizon: toward a sense of the beginning before time, of a source in which motion and eternity are not yet separated. The programme's language is nature. Vykintas Baltakas's Cumulus introduces the movement of clouds: orchestral layers condense and disperse, merge and divide like air masses ceaselessly rewriting the sky. Marina Gribinčika's Posseidon sets the power of the sea in motion — wave, depth, pressure, and currents that never rest. Oļesja Tumane's new work brings a new weather condition into the programme in the most literal sense: music written for this moment and place, seeking in the present a link with something primordial. The axis connecting all of this is the wind. In Kristjan Kõrver's work, the wind goes its own circuit — "to the south… to the north… and returns" — and remains unpredictable to the last: we hear its sound, but do not know whence it comes or whither it goes. Lauri Marjakangas continues the idea of wind within the space of Sámi culture, where vastness and movement are an everyday reality and nature dictates the rhythm of time. Timeless Origin shapes a single orchestral flow from clouds, wind, and sea. This is music that seeks its bearings outside the human — and, with the help of elemental forces, points toward an origin that lies before time.
Text by Santa Bušs, translation by Krists Auznieks