Saturday 20 September 7:30pm
£20.00 (18 and under free)
Venue: Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, YO10 5DB

Concert by Festival Artists

This is a concert of music written by the very greatest song writers. Schubert’s lovely Notturno was composed in 1827 the year before his premature death age 31. It was meant to be the slow movement of his Piano Trio but was discarded for some unknown reason and so became ‘spare’! Oh that he had lived longer! In 1842 Robert Schumann was in a good place having at long last married Clara Wieck. Free to compose 1842 became his ‘year of chamber music’. The Piano Quartet feels like the composer was in a reverie; a dream state expressed in sound in which nothing prosaic or ugly is allowed, just pure beauty.

Scaling down to small-scale ensembles was a problem for Tchaikovsky, especially because Russians don’t do elegiac music on a small scale and this Trio is no exception!! Tchaikovsky drives the three players to their limits. As a result the Piano Trio has few rivals in the chamber music repertoire. It is not surprisingly wonderfully tuneful and in Russia it still matches Tchaikovsky’s three great symphonies in popularity.

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