RENCONTRES INÉDITES I
An exceptional trio will open this concert, bringing together violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis, and pianist Richard Goode. In the second part, Brahms’s famous Piano Quintet will be performed by a team of charismatic chamber musicians who perfectly embody the spirit of the Rencontres Inédites.
Programme
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63
(Goode, Bell, Isserlis)
Interval
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34
(Lugansky, Bouchkov, Waarts, Teh Engstroem, Maisky)
Artist(s)
- Joshua Bell violin
- Marc Bouchkov violin
- Stephen Waarts violin
- Blythe Teh Engstroem viola
- Steven Isserlis cello
- Mischa Maisky cello
- Richard Goode piano
- Nikolaï Lugansky piano
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49: I. Molto allegro e agitato at the Verbier Festival (Bell, Isserlis, Shani)
Schumann’s chamber music is renowned for its sensitivity, but also for its unexpected reversals of fortune: moments of delicate poetry suddenly give way to furioso episodes, in which the strings chant the notes with resolute authority, or, on the contrary, soar joyfully into the heights of their tessitura. There is nothing of the sort in Brahms’s Piano Quintet, although the relationship between the two composers is tangible. From the very first minute, the mass is said: a sombre, disquieting melody is uttered in unison, before a movement of fury explodes the framework of the monody and immediately falls back. At just thirty years of age, Brahms truly left his youthful composing days behind with this concise, scalpel-sharp work.