31.03.25, 20:00, Trio Concept, Boulanger, Ravel & Mendelssohn
Some letters of nobility: ECHO Rising Star 2025; winners of YCAT 2023; first prize at the Schoenfeld International Competition in Harbin and named ‘Ensemble of the Year 2020/2021’ by Le Dimore del Quartetto. We could go on (trust us), but we dare to think you get the picture by now: tonight an absolutely top trio is playing. They bring before you an absolutely top-notch programme. Lili Boulanger (D’un soir triste and D’un matin de printemps), Mendelssohn (Piano Trio No.1 in re minor) and Ravel’s magisterial trio in la minor. Written in 1914, Ravel rushed like mad — his words, not ours — to finish it in time for him to enlist in the army. That he borrowed the first theme from fandango-dancing ice cream sellers, we are only too happy to grant, pour la petite histoire.
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