Shostakovich Ensemble

The three soloists Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro (piano), Mario Hossen (violin) and Harriet Krijgh (violoncello) dedicate themselves to three masterpieces of the piano trio literature on this evening.

The programme opens with Dmitri Shostakovich's youthful and stormy Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor op. 8, a rarely heard early work full of romantic passion, which the 17-year-old composer dedicated to his first love.

This is followed by Ludwig van Beethoven's famous Piano Trio in D major op. 70 no. 1, the so-called »Ghost Trio«. It owes its nickname to the mysterious, shadowy Largo middle movement, whose gloomy atmosphere is reminiscent of sketches for a planned Macbeth opera.

The crowning finale is Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor op. 49, a highlight of Romantic chamber music, once celebrated by Robert Schumann as a »master trio of the present day«. With its melodic richness, virtuoso piano part and lyrical depth, it is still one of the most frequently performed works of its genre today.

An evening that spans the broad spectrum from Viennese Classicism to High Romanticism and Russian Modernism.