Monday 10 March 2025 at 8.00pmElliott Carter: Epigrams (2012)
Nico Muhly: Common Ground (2008)
Martinů: Piano Trio No. 3 in C major, H. 332
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Copland: Vitebsk (1928)
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101
The Trio presents a programme exploring transatlantic connections. American composer Elliott Carter's final work 'Epigrams' is a series of 12 witty and surprising movements characterising the eponymous ancient Greek literary device in musical form. New York based Nico Muhly's 'Common Ground' looks back to the ground basses of Henry Purcell, before we move to Bohuslav Martinů's third and final Trio in C major, written in 1951 during his spell in the USA. Martinů's energetic, folk-inspired and deeply stirring music has become a particular fascination of Trio Havisham. Aaron Copland's arresting 'Vitebsk' Trio turns to "the harshness and drama of Jewish life in White Russia" through its meditation on a Hassidic-Belarussian folk tune from Ansky's play 'The Dybbuk'. The programme finishes with a masterwork of the piano trio repertoire by Johannes Brahms, a piece which brought the genre to maturity and paved the way for the other works in this evening's programme.
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