When: 9th March

 

Where: Southbank Centre

 

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Chamber masterworks by Beethoven and Messiaen carry a momentous emotional weight. The premiere of Beethoven’s Archduke Trio in 1814 was one of the composer’s final public performances. The piece is considered to be his finest – if not the finest – for piano trio. Completed in 1811, the trio is, like the Eroica Symphony, striking for the grandeur of its dimensions and the profundity of its expression. The Archduke Rudolph of Austria was one of the composer’s truest friends, a pupil and dedicatee of ten important works in various forms. Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time – for piano trio with clarinet – premiered in January 1941 at Stalag VIIIA, a prisoner of war camp in Görlitz, Germany.

Southbank Centre – The Lisney Trio with Michael Whight