Artist:
- Trio Orelon
Plan:
Three-Part Plots: from Beethoven to Britten
Three trios, three eras, three approaches to instrumental dialogue. The concert intertwines the voices of three composers profoundly different in style, language, and era, yet united by the desire to renew chamber music and breathe new life into the piano trio form. It opens with Benjamin Britten, who in his Introduction and Allegro crafted a lively and brilliant language, combining pressing rhythms and modern harmonies, demonstrating his innate theatricality even in his instrumental writing.
This is followed by Gabriel Fauré’s Trio, Op. 120, written late in his life, which enchants with its restrained elegance and the transparency of its harmonic texture: a French voice suspended between melancholy and grace, anticipating the twentieth century with a light touch. The program closes with Ludwig van Beethoven’s monumental “Archduke” Trio, Op. 97, the pinnacle of chamber music, where the balance between the three instruments becomes a sonic architecture and expressive momentum. A masterpiece that marks the transition from mature classicism to romantic anxieties. A journey through distant yet interconnected musical worlds, through the noble and intimate form of the trio.
- B. Britten
Introduction and Allegro for Piano Trio - G. Fauré
Trio in D minor, Op. 120 - L. van Beethoven
Trio in B flat major, Op. 97 “Arciduca”