In accordance with the recently passed holiday season, the musicians performed pieces at the concert that have won the hearts of listeners for decades and are well known for their inherent contemplativeness. The program was originally created as a dialogue between the two musicians, but in this concert the duet was supplemented by the Riga Cathedral Boys Choir in different pieces: funny, sad, comical and serious.
Selected pearls of popular and classical music allowed listeners to immerse themselves in memories of the times when their original versions were created, as well as experience never-before-heard atmospheres. As first, the duet of musicians performed the original work of Valters Pūce “Stāvēt įreš”, followed by compositions from the already realized program “Made in Latvia”, which includes classics of Latvian music.
Together with the Rīga Dome Boys’ Choir, Valters Pūce and Dainis Tenis performed Zigmar Liepiņš’s “Quasimodo Đīdājumu”, Mārtiņš Braun’s “Svēselīti”, Jānis Lūsēns’s “Alice’s Street” and Uldas Marhilevičs’s “Prayer”, while in the duet we have heard “Northern Wind” by Raimonds Macat, “Avvij rakas” by Imanta Kalniņa, “Ballads from the show “Sveiks”” by Valtas Pouces and “Carrie’s Song” by Raimonds Paul. After each piece, the musicians delighted the visitors with humorous stories about how they managed to get permission from Latvian composers to arrange these works.
The concert continued with interpretations of the duo’s second program “Without electricity!”, in which the musicians gave new currents to world classics. “Una Mattina” by the Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi was heard from the soundtrack of the film “The Untouchables”, but then the listeners were surprised by different combinations of the songs.
Presenting the composition “White Swan and Black Swan”, Dainis Tenis revealed: “There are many beautiful melodies in the world and, in our opinion, two composers – Pēteris Tchaikovskys and Kamils Sensāns – wrote one of the most beautiful It happened that these two melodies were about swans, so we combined these pieces and ended up with the white swan and the black swan”.
We saw a version of “Lacrimosa” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from “Requiem” and the song “Paranoid Android” by the group “Radiohead” with the voices of cello, piano and boys’ choir, but the real excitement of the audience was caused gives the composition “Symphony Du Riechst So Gut”, in which the musicians combined the themes of the repertoire of Ludwig van Beethoven and the group “Rammstein”.
At the end of the concert, Raimonda Tigula’s “Give, Gods” aroused real excitement and soul-fulfillment of all concert-goers in unison.
