IN SEARCH OF LOST BEAUTY / MORAVIAN AUTUMN

MARTIN BRUNNER
Moving Silhouettes new composition commissioned by the festival, world premiere

ŽIBUOKLĖ MARTINAITYTĖ
Prarasto grožio beieškant… (In Search of Lost Beauty…) for piano trio, electronics and synchronized video, Czech premiere

Trio Bohémo:
Matouš Pěruška violin
Kristina Vocetková cello
Jan Vojtek piano

Download concert programme here.

Paintings of water lilies by the French impressionist Claude Monet inspired the Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė to create a series of ten audio-visual novellas, In Search of Lost Beauty. At the centre of the composition is a piano trio, which becomes an organic part of the other auditory and pictorial layers. The live players’ parts are exactly synchronised with the electronic and visual tracks. The purpose is not to play out the concert but to draw the audience into a world where perceptions work differently from the ordinary, time dissolves in a sound environment and pictures help us forget the incredible depth of sound created by so few musicians. The chamber ensemble makes it quite apparent how carefully and minutely the composer treats the tones coaxed directly from the piano strings, and what inventiveness and variety she applies when defining the bowing of the violin and the cello. The effect of the precise sound idea is then augmented by the slight amplification of the acoustic instruments, blending naturally with the electronic track made up of concrete sounds – it is as if the echoes of the outside world were penetrating the walls of the concert hall.
Following the audience into the dreamlike yet irresistible realms of Žibuoklė Martinaitytė will be the world premiere of Moving Silhouettes by Martin Brunner. A vision of silhouettes, moving perhaps in a misty haze, perhaps in a dusky twilight, appeared to Brunner as he worked on the composition and clearly influenced its character, and naturally also found its way to the work’s title.
Trio Bohémo was founded in 2019, when Matouš Pěruška (violin), Kristina Vocetková (cello) and Jan Vojtek (piano) met while studying at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. The young ensemble has won a string of international awards, had its debut at Vienna’s Musikverein and at London’s Wigmore Hall.