Armonas Trio
The chamber ensemble Armonas Trio was founded in 1988. Its members – Ingrida Armonaitė (violin), Rimantas Armonas (cello) and Irena Uss (piano) – are famous Lithuanian musicians, internationally acclaimed soloists and performers of chamber music. All three of them teach at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. The ensemble gives concerts in Lithuania and abroad and often performs in festivals of contemporary music. The repertoire of Armonas Trio includes not only classical and romanticist music, but also opuses by contemporary composers. Their concert programmes are not lacking in pieces by contemporary Lithuanian composers. The ensemble was the first to perform piano trios by V.Barkauskas, R.Šileika, J.Juozapaitis, A.Jasenka, V.Germanavičius amongst others. On the 3rd October 2003 in the Great Hall of the Lithuanian National Philharmonic, Armonas Trio gave a concert, which was broadcast to 17 countries by Euroradio. The musicologist Vladas Zalatoris commented on this concert: “Lithuanian Radio has hit the mark by choosing this ensemble. The ensemble has consistently been moving towards its present, we could say, culmination in its concert activities. The evening programme, and especially the performance, have met the highest standards. Demonstrating a rare harmony in joint music making, which has united all the components of performance into a single whole, the ensemble has also revealed different creative individualities of its members without levelling them.”
Lithuanian Composers
Vytautas Barkauskas
Modus vivendi
Zita Bružaitė
Sonnet IV
Vytautas Germanavičius
"Nidamanngrieg"
Antanas Jasenka
"Melodia"
Antanas Kučinskas
”Loop in D minor“
Remigijus Šileika
Trio
Musica ricordanza
Foreign Composers
Johannes Brahms
Piano Trio No.2 in C major, op.87
Claude Debussy
Trio in G (1880)
Antonin Dvorak
"Dumki", No.4 in E minor, op.90
Piano Trio in E minor, op.90
Dietrich Erdmann
Trio
Arvo Part
„Mozart-adagio“ (in memoriam Oleg Kagan,1992/1997)
Franz Schubert
Trio in B flat major, op. 99, D 898
Robert Schumann
Piano Trio No.2 in F major, op.80
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Trio in E minor, op.67
Joaquin Turina
„Circulo“, op. 91 (1942)
Peteris Vasks
”Episodi e canto perpetuo“ (”Hommage à O. Messiaen“ )
Concert in the Museum of Applied Art, Vilnius, 2014 November 23
Jubilee celebration of pianist Irena Uss
Performers
ARMONŲ TRIO: INGRIDA ARMONAITĖ (violin) RIMANTAS ARMONAS (cello) IRENA USS (piano)
ARMONAS – USS DUO: RIMANTAS ARMONAS (cello) IRENA USS (piano)
EDVARDAS ARMONAS (cello)
FRANZ SCHUBERT – Adagio in A major for two cellos and piano
ROBERT SCHUMANN – Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces) Op. 73 for cello and piano
OTTORINO RESPIGHI – Adagio con variazioni
JURGIS JUOZAPAITIS – Moonlight for two cellos and piano (composer’s version, 2004)
DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH – Piano trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
Concert at the National Philharmonic Hall, 26 03 2008
ARVO PÄRT Mozart-adagio for violin, cello and piano (in memoriam Oleg Kagan,1992/1997)
VYTAUTAS GERMANAVIČIUS Nidamanngrieg Sonate for violin, cello and piano (2001)
JOAQUÍN TURINA Circulo, fantasia for piano, violin and cello, Op. 91 (1942; Lithuanian premiere)
Interval
DIETRICH ERDMANN Trio for piano, violin and cello (1990)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Trio in G for piano, violin and cello (1880; Lithuanian premiere)
Concert in Museum of Applied Arts, 2006 09 24
F. Schubert Trio in B flat major, Op. 99, D 898
A. Kucinskas „Loop in D minor“
Z.Bruzaite „Sonnet IV“ (premiere)
P. Vasks „Episodi e canto perpetuo“ („Hommage à O. Messiaen“)
