Chamber music: Rachmaninov, Beethoven & Schumann by Trio Karenine
The Karénine Trio - whose new CD devoted to Suk and Dvorak will be released at the beginning of February 2023 - gladly accepted the invitation of the Colmar International Festival for a concert around Rachmaninov, Beethoven and Schumann.
Less well known than his immense Trio No. 2, composed in memory of Tchaikovsky, the Trio No. 1 (from 1892) allows us to hear a youthful Rachmaninov (he was 19 at the time), but already so brilliantly virtuoso in form and colour. In the same dark key of G minor, Schumann's Trio No. 3 (1852) offered him, if not a model, at least a reference in terms of construction and evocative power. But the pioneer of the genre was of course Beethoven, whose 'Spirits' Trio (1809) plunged with a bang into the darkest of keys.
Program
Sergei Rachmaninov: Elegiac Trio No. 1 in G minor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio in D major op.70 No.1 "The Spirits
Robert Schumann: Trio No. 3 in G minor, op.110
