‘Remembering Childhood’

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‘Remembering Childhood’

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— Kanadisk supertrio tolker et av Schuberts største verk Rilian Trio er et sjeldent one-to-watch-ensemble fra Kanada. De vant nylig både førstepris og publikumsprisen for sitt karismatiske og personlige spill under Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition, der briljant samspill er vel så viktig som ekte formidling. Denne helgen får vi oppleve supertrioen både i Bergen og Oslo, og med seg har de et av Schuberts virkelige storverk: Klavertrioen i Bb-dur. De gjør også Sjostakovitsj’ senromantiske, første trio samt et vakkert, sakralt verk skrevet av trioens pianist, Godwin Friesen. Programmet har de valgt å kalle Remembering Childhood — og du kan lese hva de selv skriver om det lenger ned på denne siden. Velkommen! Daniel Dastoor fiolin David Liam Roberts cello Godwin Friesen piano Om programmet — 'Remembering Childhood' «Isn’t there something special about childhood? The freedom to be unabashedly creative, to enjoy being alive without being in charge, to focus on the delight of the very present moment… Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his first trio at age 16, and his youthfulness comes through in how he strings together all the pathos and beauty that he yet knew—holding nothing back. Our own pianist, Godwin Friesen, has been so captivated by the reflection on childlike contentment in Psalm 131 that he composed a piece to drive home the point for himself, to replace the pursuit of power with humble surrender to his good God. Franz Schubert seems to us to have been an eternal child. How else could he have written music so pure and so whimsical, though he wrote it in the final year of his short life? A man walking in a forest once thought, “But when alone—really alone—everyone is a child: or no one? Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives” (CS Lewis). — Skrevet av Rilian Trio (2025)