Renaud Capuçon © Simon Fowler / Parlophone Records Ltd
Kian Soltani © Marco Borggreve
Fujita Mao © Dovile Sermokas
Renaud Capuçon / Soltani / Fujita
Sunday
23
March
2025
19:30 – ca. 21:20
Mozart-Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
An early and a late work
In 1828, shortly after Beethoven's death, several musicians and around fifty invited guests gathered in Joseph von Spaun's house in Vienna's Teinfaltstraße. At this last Schubertiade during the composer's lifetime, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Joseph Lincke and the young Schubert friend Carl Maria von Bocklet performed the Trio in B flat major op. 99 for the first time. Three outstanding musicians of our time, Renaud Capuçon on the violin, Kian Soltani on the cello and Mao Fujita on the piano, are following in the footsteps of what was probably the first professional piano trio to perform the same trio - today it is undisputedly one of Schubert's most beautiful instrumental works. The second item on the program is the Trio in B major by Johannes Brahms, which he composed and published at the age of twenty, but later revised significantly. He removed the Beethoven and Schubert quotations in the later version, which are considered obvious greetings to Clara Schumann.