These three award-winning musicians of international renown are associated mainly with twentieth-century and contemporary music. Vadim Gluzman, who plays on Antonio Stradivari’s ‘ex-Leopold Auer’ violin from 1690, has premiered works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Elena Firsova and Lera Auerbach, among others. Cellist Johannes Moser was the first performer of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Cello Concerto ‘Before we fall’ (2024/2025). Andrei Korobeinikov, meanwhile, became famous for his recordings of both of Dmitri Shostakovich’s piano concertos and Alexander Scriabin’s works for piano. So the programme, consisting of works by Franz Schubert and Pyotr Tchaikovsky, promises to be intriguing.
The Piano Trio in E flat major, Op. 100 is one of Schubert’s last works. It was composed in November 1827 and first performed in January 1828 at the engagement party of the composer’s schoolfriend Josef von Spaun (1788–1865). Compared to that work, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50, dedicated ‘to the memory of a great artist’, has a more elegiac character. Composed in January 1882, it was dedicated to Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881, Anton’s younger brother), a close friend of the composer. Mourning can already be heard in the first movement, termed Pezzo elegiaco. Perhaps, however, the juxtaposition of the two works can be interpreted in a more cheerful way: as joyful remembrance, idyllic passing or a wedding with death? The distinguished performers will present their own answer.
Jan Lech