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.