Mithras Trio
In association with the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust ticket scheme
Germaine Tailleferre: Piano Trio (1916/17, rev. 1978)
Saint-Saëns: Piano
Trio No.1 in F, Op.18
Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat, Op.97 ‘Archduke’
Saint-Saëns
first Piano Trio, a charming and rustic piece that even displays a naïve
spirit and irrepressible character, is said to have been inspired by a
holiday in the Pyrenees that the 28-year-old composer took in 1863.
Germaine Tailleferre, the only woman in the famous French group of
composers known as ‘Les Six’, wrote this characterful Trio in 1916-17 but
revised it over 60 years later with the addition of a spirited finale.
Beethoven’s Archduke Trio is a noble and spacious work, widely celebrated
for its broad dimensions and rich substance despite having to survive an
inauspicious debut with the increasingly deaf composer “pounding on the
piano keys till the strings jangled.”
“Boasting strikingly
truthful sound and balance…I look forward to hearing more from this
talented young ensemble.” Gramophone
Artist info: mithrastrio.co.uk
