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The Venue - Leeds College of Music
Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7PD
England
Programme
Mikhail Glinka – Trio pathétique
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade, Op.35 (arr. piano trio & clarinet)
Anton Arensky – Piano Trio no.1 in D minor, Op. 32
Performers
Robert Plane – clarinet
Gould Piano Trio
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
Drama of an almost operatic nature frames this programme. Glinka, primarily known for being the "Father of Russian Music", was greatly influenced by his love of the Italian operas of Rossini and Bellini. He composed his Trio Pathétique in 1832 following a failed love affair, and pours the melodrama of his predicament into the music noting in the score "The only way I know love is by the pain it causes".
One of the "Russian Five" who followed Glinka's nationalistic path, Rimsky-Korsakov wrote his epic symphonic poem Scheherazade in 1888. Based on the tale of One Thousand and One Nights, it is made famous by its dramatic story telling, for its eastern leanings and tremendous orchestral colour. In this chamber version for piano trio and clarinet, the intimacy of the story is brought to the fore.
If Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov followed the more nationalistic path, filling their music with Russian village songs, Arensky was inspired by the heritage of Tchaikovsky. Indeed it was Tchaikovsky's great elegiac trio of 1882 that motivated Arensky to write his first trio, dedicated to the memory of his friend, the cellist Carl Davidoff. Filled with the best of melodies, an impish scherzo, it is in the third movement, Elegia that we find the full pathos of this heartfelt work.
This concert is the fourth in the series of six concerts curated by the Gould Piano Trio:
06 October - Gould Piano Trio
28 November - Navarra String Quartet
12 December - Lucy Gould, Robert Plane, Benjamin Frith and Peter Hill
23 January - Gould Piano Trio
13 February - Navarra String Quartet
06 March - Lucy Gould, Alicy Neary, Benjamin Frith with Ilona Domnich
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Russia in Revolution
Gould Piano Trio - Artistic Directors
One hardly needs an excuse to programme such sumptuous and compelling works as these large scale Russian Masterpieces, but in the centenary year of the Russian Revolution we have the opportunity to hear the more familiar alongside some less frequently performed pieces.
In this series we look both ways, back towards Glinka and Tchaikovsky and forwards to Shostakovich and Stravinsky. We hear some compositions born from the Friday night meetings 'Les Vendredis' in St Petersburg and we have a concert of Debussy and Stravinsky - two decades apart in age but connected by their admiration for each other. Later in the season a rarely heard arrangement of the Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade for clarinet and piano trio, no less exciting for its fewer performers, will certainly shed new light on the piece. The elegiac trio, a thread running through the series, was taken up by many of the great Russian composers spanning some 50 years. Where would the trio repertoire be without these giants?!
We look forward to welcoming our guests, the Navarra String Quartet, Peter Donohoe, Peter Hill, Ilona Domnich, Robert Plane and David Adams and to giving you, our audience, a taste of some colourful and epic adventures.
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