Faith - hope - love, these three famous terms from the Bible, they characterise Pēteris Vasks, the globally acclaimed composer from Latvia. Faith: clearly very important to him. Hope: never give up! But the most important thing for him: love! And so he writes modern classical music that goes straight to the heart. And yet his artistic credo is: music must never be »sweet«!
Vasks, who will be 80 years old next year, loves silence: »Because everything comes from it and ends in it«. And so the silence after the last note is endless: the RIX Piano Quartet, a world-renowned ensemble whose string players are already familiar from Gidon Kremer’s famous Kremerata, is coming to Hamburg. In their luggage: the third piano quartet by Johannes Brahms – a reference to Hamburg and its audience. And Pēteris Vasks, the master himself, will be joining them for a preliminary artistic discussion. A very special evening with a very special composer!
PERFORMERS
RIX Piano Quartet piano quartet
Sandis Šteinbergs violin
Ilze Kļava viola
Reinis Birznieks violoncello
Jānis Maļeckis piano
PROGRAM
Artist talk with Pēteris Vasks and Ludwig Hartmann
Pēteris Vasks
Klavierquartett
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Film screening »Der Komponist und sein Himmel – Pēteris Vasks«
