Rosamunde Trio: Beethoven, Shostakovich, Smetana

The internationally celebrated Rosamunde Trio present three masterworks of the piano trio repertoire. Beethoven’s famous Ghost Trio, with its remarkable slow movement, compared by Czerny to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is followed by Shostakovich’s youthful C minor trio from the 1920s. Their programme ends with the Smetana’s passionate piano trio, composed in the 1850s and first heralded as a masterpiece by none other than Franz Liszt.

Programme

Beethoven Piano Trio Op. 70 No. 1 in D, Ghost
Shostakovich Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 8
Smetana Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15

Performers

Martino Tirimo piano
Ben Sayevich violin
Daniel Veis cello

FREE Pre-Concert Foyer Performance – Jobine Siekman (cello), 5.45pm

Dutch cellist Jobine Siekman is quickly building her career as an exceptional chamber musician and soloist. She has won prizes both as a soloist (National Cello Competition of Cellobiennale Amsterdam 2016) and with ensembles including the Alkyona Quartet and the Chloé Trio.

Programme

Ligeti Sonata for solo cello
Bach Cello Suite No. 6 in C, BWV1009