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When the Silver-Garburg piano duo was produced with the Spokane Symphony in 2014, they played Bach and Mendelssohn together on separate pianos. But this time, the virtuosos married will share a bench when they play an arrangement of the Opus 25 Brahms for piano four hands. Eckart Preu, friend and longtime colleague of the duo, will lead the group.
Preu knows Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg since he's been directing the Spokane Symphony. They met in Israel about 15 years ago, when Preu was invited to conduct the Jerusalem Symphony and the duo played another prime minister for piano four-handed.
At the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox this weekend, the Silver-Garburg duet will perform the West Coast premiere of Austrian composer Richard Dünser's performance on Brahms' Opus 25 for piano four-handed. In this new arrangement created for Silver and Garburg, Dünser combines aspects of Brahms' original piano quartet in D minor of Opus 25 and Brahms's own arrangement of the same four-handed piano piece.
"It's absolutely amazing and I can tell you because I just spent the whole day working on it," Garburg said. "This (arrangement) is so much more relaxed than the foursome and it works really well."
Dünser's arrangements quickly filled the duo's schedule as this week they were invited to play in Switzerland, Austria and Germany, where they will have the chance to perform with the German Chamber Orchestra.
"I never seem to be in the same country the same week," Garbur said.
Silver and Garburg have been accomplished pianists for most of their lives. Their young son started studying the piano, but he is more interested in robotics and the fields of STEM than music.
"Today, he is sitting six hours with his robots," Garburg said. "He builds them and then he programs them. It is quite intense. "
Silver and Garburg are thrilled to return to Spokane.
"It's really nice to come back to some places because we travel all the time," Garburg said. "I know exactly the places I like to eat and their appearance, their smell and everything. It is very nice to come back.
In addition to the return of the Silver-Garburg piano duo, this weekend's program also includes well-known music, namely Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 3.
"This season … I'm bringing back people I've worked with and revisiting a repertoire that was done in the past," said Preu. "In my first season, we played at Sibelius No. 3. It's such a difficult symphony that it's nice to do it again when you know an orchestra very well."
Like Mahler and his contemporaries, Sibelius greatly influenced the scoring of movies today. About nine minutes after Sibelius's third symphony debuted, fans of the "Lord of the Rings" could recognize a melody inspired by composer Howard Shore while writing the score for the film. The similarities do not stop there and the spirit of the films often echoes the work of Sibelius.
"Sibelius has the kind of robustness, the beautiful toughness that in many ways the" Lord of the Rings "represents, said Preu." It's brutal and brutal, but it has those beautiful intimate moments. "
The program begins with Sibelius's "Finlandia", followed by the Brahms, and the closing of Sibelius's Symphony No. 3.
"Finlandia" … symbolizes so much what Sibelius represents for many people, "said Preu. "It's also a very different composition from that of the symphony. It's a bit … still in the romantic era. This is more about Brahms in this regard.
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