Trio Shaham-Erez-Wallfisch
Hagai Shaham violin | Arnon Erez piano
Raphael Wallfisch cello
Ben-Haim Variations on a Hebrew Melody
Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
Ravel Piano Trio in A minor
Festival favourite Raphael Wallfisch brings his Trio back to Leamington for the first time since 2015 when they delighted our audience with all of Brahms’ wonderful piano trios. The Trio have performed, broadcast, and recorded widely throughout Europe, Canada, and Israel including concerts in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, France, and Spain.
Composed in his ‘Mediterranean Style’ – a blend of Mizrahi-Jewish, Bedouin, and Arabic folk music conjuring a local national colour – Paul Ben-Haim’s Variations on a Hebrew Melody open the concert. We then continue celebrations of Shostakovich in the 50th year after his death and hear our first work of Ravel’s in this Festival, celebrating 150 years since his birth.
The finer details…
Interval: 20 mins
Estimated finish: 9pm
Tickets:
Centre section: £28 full price | £3 child/student
Side sections: £18 full price | £9 under-35s | £3 child/student
Guarneri Piano Trio
Čeněk Pavlík violin | Marek Jerie cello | Ivan Klanský piano
Suk Elegy
Smetana Trio in G minor Op 15
Dvořák Trio in F minor Op 65
The Guarneri Piano Trio, founded in 1986, is one of best in the world and has given several memorable concerts in Leamington over the years. Although the three members also have careers as soloists, playing together for nearly forty years brings another dimension to the Trio’s performances.
The ensemble bears the family name of the makers of both string instruments used by the Trio. Cenek Pavlík plays the famous ‘Zimbalist’ violin by Guarneri del Gesù from the precious collection of Luigi Tarisio, while Marek Jerie plays a cello made by Andrea Guarneri in l684.
The Trio’s stunning interpretation of Smetana’s masterpiece on previous visits absolutely had to be included in this programme, along with these wonderful works by Dvořák and his son-in-law, Suk, and will once again demonstrate the Trio’s complete immersion in the rich Czech repertoire.
Generously supported by Michael & Halldóra Blair
£27 | £17
(£1 children / students)
Greenwich Piano Trio
Lana Trotovšek violin | Heather Tuach cello | Simon Callaghan piano
Mozart Piano Trio in G K564
Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque No 2 in D minor Op 9
The award-winning Greenwich Piano Trio plays in the Festival for the first time, as we welcome back the Slovenian violinist Lana Trotovšek who thrilled our audience at a lunchtime concert last year, Heather Tuach, the Canadian cellist in the Fitzwilliam Quartet, and pianist Simon Callaghan who last played here in the 2016 Leamington Music Festival.
Opening with the last of Mozart’s six piano trios, completed in 1788, we follow with Rachmaninov’s monumental Trio written in 1893 and dedicated to Tchaikovsky who died in November that year. Earlier in the year, Rachmaninov’s opera Aleko was premièred at the Bolshoi Theatre and was warmly praised by Tchaikovsky. His death must have been a shock as only nine days before he had conducted the première of his sixth symphony in St Petersburg.
£17.50 | £12.50
(£1 children / students)
Leonore Piano Trio
Benjamin Nabarro violin | Gemma Rosefield cello | Tim Horton piano
Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque No 1 in G minor
Arensky Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 32
Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor Op 50 ‘In Memory of a Great Artist’
The Leonore Piano Trio has become one of the firm Festival favourites for our audience. Established in 2012, the Trio appears regularly at the Wigmore Hall and other major venues, and their recordings – as with the two Piano Trios by Arensky – are highly praised.
The 2023 Festival is launched with an early work of 1892 by Rachmaninov, and his other monumental Trio (of 1907) features in the lunchtime concert on Monday. Arensky’s First Piano Trio (1894) was dedicated to the celebrated Russian cellist Karl Davidoff, and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio (1881-2) was written in memory of his great mentor, Nikolai Rubinstein.
Concert generously supported by Peter Robinson in memory of Gillian
£26 | £16
(£1 children / students)
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
2022 Leamington Music Prize Winners’ concert
Félicité Piano Trio
Ricardo Brown Roger violin
Lucy Samuels cello, Lucy Eccleshall piano
Sally Beamish Carnival Samba
Clara Schumann Piano Trio in G minor Op 17
Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor Op 11
Lili Boulanger D’un soir triste
Lili Boulanger D’un matin du printemps
The winners of the thirteenth Leamington Music Prize perform a concert of music by women composers, one of the Trio’s special interests which so impressed the adjudicators of the competition and which earned the Trio much-deserved attention from the national press upon winning the Prize earlier this year.
Concert generously supported by the Friends of Leamington Music and in memory of Sonia & Harry Hyamson
We are sorry to announce that this concert from the winners of the 2022 Leamington Music Prize is having to be postponed due to injury.
We are working on a date in February to hold this concert – the Box Office will be in touch with everyone who has tickets to discuss transferring them as soon this date has been fixed.
2022 Leamington Music Prize Winners’ concert
Félicité Piano Trio
Ricardo Brown Roger violin
Lucy Samuels cello, Lucy Eccleshall piano
Sally Beamish Carnival Samba
Clara Schumann Piano Trio in G minor Op 17
Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor Op 11
Lili Boulanger D’un soir triste
Lili Boulanger D’un matin du printemps
The winners of the thirteenth Leamington Music Prize perform a concert of music by women composers, one of the Trio’s special interests which so impressed the adjudicators of the competition and which earned the Trio much-deserved attention from the national press upon winning the Prize earlier this year.
Concert generously supported by the Friends of Leamington Music and in memory of Sonia & Harry Hyamson
£15 unreserved
(£1 children / students)
Leonore Piano Trio
Benjamin Nabarro violin | Gemma Rosefield cello | Tim Horton piano
Haydn Trio in C Hob.XV:21
Beethoven Trio in B flat Op 97 ‘Archduke’
We look forward to welcoming back Leamington Music favourites, the Leonore Piano Trio, to the Royal Pump Rooms for the first time since May 2019 – the last Festival we were able to put on there!
This delightful programme brings works by two of Robert Simpson’s most championed composers. Simpson referenced Haydn’s music in many of his own works, and this joyful Trio was one of the last that Haydn wrote.
The ‘Archduke’, too, was the last of Beethoven’s contributions to the genre. It is a grand work of vast proportion and emotional depth, which can surely go to show why Simpson – and so many others – held Beethoven’s music in such high esteem.