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Members of the Moscow Quartet, joined by Anna Arzumanian, are so happy to invite you to attend to the concert of the Sonority Trio:
Anna Arzumanian (piano)
Eugenia Alikhanova (violin)
Olga Ogranovitch (cello)
Tickets at the door: cash or check
Info:
303.766.8925
SonorityTrio@Gmail.com
Program:
Beethoven– Piano Trio in D major, Op.70 No.1 “Ghost”
From AllMusic.com: “The Piano Trio No. 5 in D major, Op. 70, No. 1, has three movements, an old-fashioned scheme that Beethoven endows with new concision. Because of its strangely scored and undeniably eerie-sounding slow movement it was dubbed the “Ghost” Trio. The name has stuck with the work ever since. The ghostly music may have had its roots in sketches for a Macbeth opera that Beethoven was contemplating at the time…
“More serious structural thinking is on display as well — consider the elaborate modulation from tonic to dominant in the first movement’s exposition, forecast by a quick shading, as in the Symphony No. 3, within moments of the beginning of the piece. The harmonic scheme of the work as a whole is elaborate, with references and interconnections between movements. As much as any other work Beethoven ever wrote, the “Ghost” Trio invites and challenges listeners to appreciate it at a variety of levels.”
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Rachmaninoff – Trio élégiaque No.2 in D minor, Op.9
From AllMusic.com: “Inspired by the shocking death of Tchaikovsky on October 23, 1893, Rachmaninov responded by beginning a work in his memory two days later. Laboring over it for six weeks, Rachmaninov composed a work in three huge and hugely despairing movements. Taking Tchaikovsky’s own elegiac piano trio as a model, Rachmaninov’s work consists of a large-scale sonata movement, an enormous central set of variations, and a resolutely defiant concluding fast movement. And like Tchaikovsky’s Trio, Rachmaninov’s features virtuoso writing for the piano … despite its origins in the music of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov’s Trio is wholly his own: the furiously mournful melodies, the fuliginously smoky textures, the weighty but virtuosic piano writing; all of these things are characteristic of no one but Rachmaninov.” |