On Monday evening, August 7, in the Church of St. Duha was performed by clarinetist Aleksandar Tasić, cellist Dmitrij Prokofiev and pianist Ratimir Martinović, as members of the KotorArt Trio. In addition to the Festival Orchestra and the recently formed KotorArt Ensemble, this festival brand is conceived with a free performing framework, with a changing instrumental and personal composition.
Pianist Ratimir Martinović, professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, general and artistic director of KotorArt, followed by clarinetist Aleksandar Tasić, professor at the Academy in Novi Sad and FILUM in Kragujevac. Although the youngest member in terms of seniority in the ensemble, cellist Dmitriy Prokofiev, leader of the cello section in the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of the NGO Ars Industria, won the Kotor audience many times with his earlier performances, as a soloist, chamber or orchestra performer.
The artists, where the line of virtuosity and the line of poetry intersect at the ideal point, presented themselves with a program whose concept surpasses already seen, and also successful, previous musical events. While in the interpretation of Nino Rota's Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, the artists emphasized the content and character, in "Conversations" by Ivan Glebović Sokolov, they shifted the focus to the concept and "extended" interpretation, because the artists are required to play as well as to they speak. This sonic expansion, but on a purely musical level, continued through Robert Mučinski's Trio Fantasia, which the author structured through four (!) independent sections - clarinet, cello, left hand piano and right hand piano.
Although Nino Rota's name on the concert stage does not attract too much attention until he is connected with the music for the film "The Godfather", his Trio in many parts enchants both analysts and performers, as well as the audience. The second movement of that piece, a lyrical duet between clarinet and cello accompanied by a harmonically rich piano, was one of the most poetic moments of the concert as a whole. On the other hand, the third movement with its humorous music, which almost simulates the sound environment of the circus, attracted a lot of attention.
By performing the composition "Conversations" by Ivan Glebović Sokolov, the artists introduced the audience to a different, "expanded" interpretation. Although the work was created in 1997, it was not "lucky" to live on the concert stage, and according to Martinović, the performance at Don Branko's Days of Music was not only a Montenegrin but probably a European premiere. During the interpretation, the conversations took place on a musical and verbal level. In this way, the artists took the audience through the four stages of the composition, that is, the four parts of the day - day, evening, night, morning, using light effects to make these parts visually obvious.
As the last piece, the artists performed Robert Mučinski's Fantasia Trio, which captures the listener's attention from the very beginning and holds it until the very end. The "flammable", bright and humorous music received a masterful interpretation, and the artists received a well-deserved standing ovation from the audience.
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