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The Venue - Leeds College of Music
Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7PD
England
Programme
Camille Saint-Saens – Piano Trio no.2 in E minor, Op.92
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Piano Trio, Op.50
Performers
Gould Piano Trio
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
During the 1870s, on one of Saint-Saëns' many foreign trips, he became acquainted with Tchaikovsky on a visit to Moscow. They became friends based primarily on the discovery of many composers they equally admired, particularly of the classical masters, and they remained in touch for many years until Tchaikovsky's death.
The trios being performed in this concert were written ten years apart and one immediately hears the inspiration behind the first movement of Saint-Saëns’ second trio. The first six notes of the melody are identical to those of the Tchaikovsky. Both of these trios are large scale, serious works and though deeply individual contain many references to the composers whom they so revered.
Though not an elegiac work as such, you can certainly hear a tragic undercurrent in Saint-Saëns’ work. His unsuccessful attempt at family life led to two infant deaths followed by an estrangement from his wife, though perhaps his maturity at the time of writing this second trio is also a factor in the seriousness of the piece compared to so many of his lighter works. As for Tchaikovsky's trio, you could hardly find a more potent outpouring of his grief at the death of his great friend Nikolai Rubinstein than in this giant of a piece. We hope you find these pieces complement each other in ways we will all discover during this concert as this will be the first time we have programmed these works together.
This concert is the first 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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