Ionel Manciu, Violin
Leo Popplewell, Cello
Dominic Degavino, Piano

Germaine Tailleferre ~ Piano Trio (1916/17, rev. 1978)
Saint-Saëns ~ Piano Trio No.1 in F, Op.18
Beethoven ~ Piano Trio in B flat, Op.97 ‘Archduke’

Saint-Saëns’ first Piano Trio, a charming and rustic piece that even displays a naïve spirit and irrepressible character, is said to have been inspired by a holiday in the Pyrenees that the 28-year-old composer took in 1863. Germaine Tailleferre, the only woman in the famous French group of composers known as ‘Les Six’, wrote this characterful Trio in 1916-17 but revised it over 60 years later with the addition of a spirited finale. Beethoven’s Archduke Trio is a noble and spacious work, widely celebrated for its broad dimensions and rich substance despite having to survive an inauspicious debut with the increasingly deaf composer “pounding on the piano keys till the strings jangled.”

Saturday 27 July at 7.30pm (1 hr 40). Tickets £26 (conc £16). Book here.