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Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
The School of Music
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
England

Friday 28th June 2024
7:30 PM

Programme

Fanny Mendelssohn – Piano Trio in D Minor, Op.11
Claude Debussy – Estampes: 1, Pagodes
Johann Sebastian Bach – Adagio in E minor, BWV 914
Aleksandr Scriabin – Vers la Flamme, Op.72
Johann Hummel – Adagio, Variations and Rondo on a Russian Theme, Op.78
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no.20 in D minor, K.466

Performers

Helen Vidovich – flute
Valerie Welbanks – Cello
Olga Stezhko – piano
Christopher Jones – violin

Marsyas Trio

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Programme Note

In the short space of less than 100 years between 1770 and 1860, the piano underwent an astonishing evolution. Utilizing the cutting-edge technologies and manufacturing methods that became available thanks to the Industrial Revolution, Cristofori’s original 4-octave “gravicembalo col piano e forte” (harpsichord with soft and loud) quickly developed into the magnificent concert grand we know today – the instrument without which the history of Western classical music would be a different affair. In this concert, the Marsyas Trio (the FUAM Ensemble in Residence at the University of Leeds) celebrates the versatility of piano as a solo and chamber instrument and showcases its limitless expressive palette. The programme illuminates the piano’s crucial role as composers’ trusted companion in creating and disseminating larger orchestral works. By 1844 there were more than 9,000 arrangements of works in circulation including symphonies, concerti and operas. Known by Beethoven as ‘translations’, these orchestral works were often released simultaneously in several chamber ensemble versions, arranged by eminent composers of the day in consultation with the composers. Hummel and Clementi, both virtuoso pianists themselves, arranged most of Beethoven’s symphonies and many of Haydn and Mozart’s symphonies and concerti, one of which – Mozart’s dramatic and sublimely beautiful Piano Concerto in D minor K446 – takes centre stage in this programme.