Track listing
16 tracks · 73:13Arvo Pärt
- 1 Für Alina (1976) 2:37
- 2 Pari intervallo (1976) 5:08
- Partita, Op. 2 (1958) 7:13
- 3 I. Toccatina 0:45
- 4 II. Fughetta 0:55
- 5 III. Larghetto 3:33
- 6 IV. Ostinato 2:00
- Diagramme, Op. 11 (1964) 4:47
- 7 I. Unruhig 2:57
- 8 II. Ruhig 1:50
- 9 Variations for the Healing of Arinushka (1977) 5:19
Georgs Pelēcis
- 10 AREFA (2025)For Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday 4:29
Andrejs Selickis
- 11 La-Re-Fa Variations (2025)For Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday 7:25
Arvo Pärt
- 12 Hymn to a Great City (1984)for two pianos 4:16
- 13 Passacaglia (2003)for violin and piano 4:17
- 14 Fratres (1980)for violin and piano 11:04
- 15 Mozart-Adagio (1992)for violin, cello and piano 6:45
- 16 Spiegel im Spiegel (1978)for cello and piano 9:53
About this recording
This album by pianist Reinis Zariņš and the Trio Palladio is a special personal tribute to composer Arvo Pärt (b. 1935), one of the most influential composers of our time. This album includes Pärt’s timeless piano works together with a selection of his chamber works, including the famous Für Alina, Fratres and Spiegel im Spiegel alongside his early works. The programme also includes two special dedications by two Latvian composers, Georgs Pelēcis and Andrejs Selickis, who both as composers have been greatly influenced by Arvo Pärt’s example and ideas. These two works, written in 2025 for Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday, receive their first recordings.
Ever since his concerto debut at the age of nine, Latvian pianist Reinis Zariņš has performed as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout Europe and North America, as well as the Far East. He has participated in prestigious music festivals including the Lucerne Festival, the Bath International Music Festival, and the Scotia Festival of Music. His thoughtful virtuosity has delighted audiences at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore hall, New York’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Seoul Arts Center. Reinis has collaborated with leading orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, as well as all Latvian and Lithuanian orchestras, and with conductors Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Pablo Heras-Casado, and Andris Poga, among others. Among Reinis’s chamber music partners is Viktoria Mullova, Gidon Kremer, Matthew Barley, Ksenija Sidorova, Ashley Bathgate, as well as his Trio Palladio. His performances have been broadcast live by BBC Radio 3, NDR, Polish National Radio, and King FM. Reinis Zariņš regularly performs in his native Latvia and has won the country’s Grand Music Award five times. For his service to Latvian culture, Reinis has been awarded the Order of the Three Stars. Following his foundational studies in Latvia, Reinis won several scholarships to refine his talent at the Yale School of Music in the USA and the Royal Academy of Music in London. His most important teachers have included Boris Berman, Raffi Kharajanyan, Christopher Elton, and Renē Salaks.
Trio Palladio unites three distinguished Latvian soloists, devoted chamber musicians and acclaimed recording artists: violinist Eva Bindere, cellist Kristina Blaumane, and pianist Reinis Zariņš. Each is a laureate of the Grand Music Award of Latvia, and in 2024 they received this prestigious honour as a trio. The ensemble’s Wigmore Hall debut was praised as “excellent” by The Times, while their first album – Vasks’s music for piano trio for Ondine – was named Gramophone Editor’s Choice. Trio Palladio is known for crafting conceptual programmes that span Classical, Romantic and contemporary repertoire, with a particular commitment to music by Latvian and Baltic composers.
Features
Sleeve notes in English.
Raffi Kharajanyan, piano (12)
Album dedicated to Arvo Pärt's 90th birthday with world première recordings of works by Selickis and Pelecis.
The artists
Reinis Zarins
Three-time recipient of the Latvia’s Grand Music Award, concert pianist Reinis ZARIŅŠ (a member of Trio Palladio) exhilarates audiences in Europe and North America with his thoughtful virtuosity and unusual programming. He has been invited to perform in Lucerne, Bath and Norfolk festivals, with conductors Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös and Juha Kangas, and orchestras, such as London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica and Moscow Virtuosi, as well as with Latvia’s most prestigious orchestras. Reinis has released five critically acclaimed albums and is the co-author of several multimedia projects with dance and visual arts.
Trio Palladio
TRIO PALLADIO are three established Latvian soloists, avid chamber musicians and acclaimed recording artists Eva Bindere, Kristīna Blaumane and Reinis Zariņš. Each of them is the laureate of the Grand Music Award of Latvia, and in 2019 they were nominated for this prestigious award as a trio. Recent highlights include their artistic residency in the Concert Hall Cēsis, debut recitals at the London Wigmore Hall and Lutosławski Concert Studio in Warsaw, and performances of Beethoven’s Triple concerto with the Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
Also recommended
Peteris Vasks
Works for piano trio
Trio Palladio · Eva Bindere, violin · Kristina Blaumane, cello · Reinis Zarins, piano
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