Sini Simonen – violin
David Waterman – cello
Jean-Selim Abdelmoula – piano

Haydn Piano Trio No 39 (Gypsy Rondo)
Franck Violin Sonata
Brahms Piano trio No 1

Please note this concert will finish at approximately 9.30pm and will have an interval.

The B major piano trio is a rare and precious work. Brahms was twenty when he initially completed it, but was inspired to revisit and revise the piece more than thirty years later. The music offers us a glimpse of both sides of the composer: the younger – free in imagination and vast in ambition; and the mature – hugely refined, profound and philosophical. So too the trio explores musical contrasts: major tonalities (1st and 3rd movements) and minor (2nd and 4th); lyrical music and the dramatic; structure and fantasy. – Alasdair Beatson

This concert is one of six in the Leeds International Chamber Season 2021/22. View all concerts.