CHAMBERCONCERT

WHAT: Dialogues

WHEN: Friday, 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Calvary Community Church, 1205 Rogers Way

TICKETS: Kamloops Live! Box Office.

History’s two most celebrated composers are in the program, but a Friday night chamber concert takes its name, in part, from the music of a B.C. composer.

Dialogues — featuring a quartet of Catharine Dochstader (flute), Cvetozar Vutev (violin), Annette Dominik (vioin/viola) and Wiktor Lebeda (bass) — is named for Dialogues for Violin and Viola by Imant Raminsh.

Raminsh, a Vernon resident, immigrated to Canada from Latvia in 1948. Along with being a former KSO violinist, he is a founding conductor of the Prince George Symphony, the Youth Symphony of the Okanagan, NOVA Children’s Choir and the Aura Chamber Choir. His compositions have been performed around the world, including by the Cantabile Singers of Kamloops for a Carnegie Hall concert a few seasons ago.

A suite in five movements, Dialogues was written in 1983. Other selections for the concert also reflect the theme of musical dialogues between strings and woodwinds. They include W.A. Mozart’s String Duo for Violin and Viola in G Major and Ludvig Von Beethoven’s Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola in D Major.

Ironically, given the quartet, Beethoven’s Serenade is one of his few chamber pieces that does not have a bass part. Flute and strings engage in a fast and lively dialogue from the opening allegro, Entrata. As a whole, the piece follows the pattern of Mozart’s great serenades — opening and closing with allegros that enclose one slow movement mixed with minuets — but is much smaller in scale.

Mozart wrote his string duo in 1783 to complete a set of six written by Michael Haydn for the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. Although all six were presented as Hadyn’s, the archbishop detected in them “Mozart’s obvious workmanship.”

The quartet’s performance also includes Sonata No. 1 by 18th-century Italian composer Luigi Borghi and Trio for Violin, Cello (Viola) and Double Bass by a Czech contemporary, Josef Myslivecek.

Another thread of the theme relates to Myslivecek. He was an intimate friend of the Mozart family and gave young Wolfgang compositional models in the genres of symphony, opera and violin concerto.