Concert 1 - Brave New World: April 4 @ 7pm
Melbourne Recital Centre - Salon
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio in E flat, Op.1 No.1
Aaron Copland – 'Vitebsk' for Piano Trio
Charles Ives – Piano Trio (1926/29)
Igor Stravinsky – 4 movements from the Firebird arr. Benjamin Martin
With Guest Speaker Dr. Barry Jones
As a fitting tribute to the prophetic qualities of Brave New World, the Huxley Titles Series opens with a trio by perhaps music's greatest visionary - Beethoven. Then Firebird traverses the cultural threads of the New World via Aaron Copland's ancestral homage and Charles Ives' extraordinarily innovative score. Completing the program, composer/pianist Benjamin Martin offers a trio-arrangement of Stravinsky's seminal ballet score, celebrating the magic of the firebird.
Concert 2 - Music at Night: July 11 @ 7pm
Melbourne Recital Centre - Salon
Joseph Haydn – Piano Trio no.31 in E flat minor 'Jacob's Dream'
Arnold Schoenberg – Transfigured Night (1899) arr. Steuermann
Felix Mendelssohn – Piano Trio in D minor Op.49
The title of Huxley's essay 'Music at Night' captures the somnambulistic and the fantastic: the program begins with Haydn's Trio No.31, nicknamed Jacob's Dream. Written on the cusp of the twentieth century, 'Transfigured Night' is an epic tone-poem drawing listeners into Schoenberg's psychological labyrinth. As a finale, Firebird Trio performs the passionate Piano Trio in D minor by the musical creator of midsummer nights, Felix Mendelssohn.
Concert 3 - The Genius and the Goddess: November 7 @ 7pm
Melbourne Recital Centre - Salon
Featuring Guest Artists Caroline Henbest viola and Stuart Riley double bass
Clara Schumann – Piano Trio in G minor Op.17
Robert Schumann – Piano Fantasiestucke Op.88
Franz Schubert – Quintet in A major, D. 667 'Die Forelle'
Chronicling one of the great love stories in Classical music, the tumultuous relationship of Robert and Clara is reflected in Huxley's stage play,The Genius and the Goddess. Clara Schumann's only chamber music work highlights this gifted and daring woman's creativity. Firebird Trio balances the scales with Robert Schumann's own haunting refrain, finishing with music by the lyrical genius of Schubert in his enduring Trout Quintet.
Please note all concerts are full length with interval
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