2008_Concert Series


THE INAUGURAL 2008 CONCERT SERIES...

	*...contains three concerts each highlighting a different theme within the rich diversity of the piano trio repertoire.*

		Underlying the concert series is an exploration of music by ‘the Master’ Stanford, an enormously influential figure in English music in the late Romantic period, and his pupils at the Royal College of Music: Bridge, Hurlstone and Ireland.

*These exquisite yet infrequently performed works are embedded amongst well-known treasures from the piano trio canon of Brahms, Schubert, Saint-Saens and Shostakovich.*

Concert 1

Ravishing Romanticism

This concert celebrates the grand and passionately expressive music of the Romantic tradition in works from three different countries. Written during his youth, Johannes Brahms extensively revised his famous first Piano Trio in his twilight years. Franz Liszt considered the two best pianists in Europe to be himself and Saint-Saens and the Frenchman’s second Piano Trio powerfully demonstrates this. It is Frank Bridge’s abilities as a string player though which shine through in his passionate Phantasie.

Concert 2

Rich Treasure But Still Fairer Hopes

A concert featuring composers hailed as child prodigies only to have their extraordinary genius cut short by an early death. The first Australian performance of William Hurlstone’s passionate Trio lies alongside Schubert’s magnificent B-flat Piano Trio. Hurlstone, who shares with Schubert the gravestone epitaph which titles this concert, was considered “the most significant musical figure of his generation”.

Concert 3

In Remembrance

Music for the final concert in the year honours Remembrance Day and is dedicated to works influenced by the two World Wars. The lyric beauty of Stanford and Ireland’s compositions, written in response to World War One, contrasts strongly with the bleak and despairing music of Shostakovich’s great second Piano Trio in a programme exploring loss, war and grief.


	JOHANNES BRAHMS Piano Trio no. 1 in B major Op. 8 (rev. 1889) FRANK BRIDGE Phantasie Trio in C minor (1907) (Australian Premiere) CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor Op. 92 (1891)


	GEELONG - 13th April - 3.00 pm St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Latrobe Terrace, Geelong MELBOURNE -27th April - 3.00 pm St. Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins, St., Melbourne BACCHUS MARSH - 20th April - 3.00 pm Bacchus Marsh Grammars School, Wilson Hall, South Maddingley Rd., Bacchus Marsh

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Piano Trio no. 1 in B flat major D.898 (1825_1827)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Duos for violin and cello K.46d and K.46e (1768)

WILLIAM HURLSTONE
Piano Trio in G major Op. Posth. (Australian Premiere)

GEELONG - 10th August - 3.00 pm
St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Latrobe Terrace, Geelong

MELBOURNE - 24th August - 3.00 pm
St. Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins St., Melbourne

CHARLES STANFORD
Piano Trio no. 3 in A major Op. 158 (1918) (Australian Premiere)

JOHN IRELAND
Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor (1917) (Australian Premiere)

DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 44 (1944)

GEELONG -2nd November - 3.00 pm
St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Latrobe Terrace, Geelong

MELBOURNE - 9th November - 3.00 pm
St. Michael’s Uniting Church, 120 Collins, St., Melbourne

BALLAN - 1st November - 4.00 pm
St. Brigid’s Catholic Church, Inglis St., Ballan