Program:
Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in E-flat minor, Hob. XV:31
Ferenc Liszt: Tristia, S. 378C
Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, D. 929
Featuring:
János Mátyás Stark – violin
Gergely Devich – cello
Fülöp Ránki – piano
Haydn's Trio in E-flat Minor is special not only for its unusual tone and the quasi-amalgam form of its first movement: its second movement was originally called 'Jacob's Dream' by the composer, who jokingly composed the biblical ladder leading from earth to heaven into the heights of the violin part – for an amateur violinist who was notoriously at odds with such positions.
Liszt's chamber music output is a small slice of his vast oeuvre as a composer, and these works are very rarely heard. Tristia is a late trio version of the piano work Obermann's Valley, which lacks the dramatic recitative and glowing final section of the original piano version; Liszt retained only the melancholic first movement, thus referring the piece into the realm of his purely contemplative late works.
The evening concludes with Schubert's Trio in E-flat major, one of the evergreen jewels of the immense wealth of Austro-German chamber music.
Further concerts in this series:
4 January 2025 7 PM Trio Haris (Ránki – Stark – Devich) II. | Takemitsu, Schubert, Shostakovich
22 March 2025 7 PM Trio Haris (Ránki – Stark – Devich) III. | Haydn and Beethoven
7 June 2025 7 PM Trio Haris (Ránki – Stark – Devich) IV. | Schumann and Brahms
