22 July 2012: Min-Jin Kym, Jamie Walton and Daniel Grimwood
The performers
Min-Jin Kym violin, Jamie Walton cello and Daniel Grimwood piano
Background
This is a welcome return for Jamie and Danny, who played cello sonatas at Cratfield in 2010 and who have made many recordings together: click here for information about their latest CD. For our concert, the Korean-born violinist Min-Jin Kym now joins them. Each of the three performs regularly in the North York Moors Chamber Music Festival, which Jamie directs, but also has a high profile solo career in concert and in the recording studio.
For more details, click here to go to Jamie’s own website, here for Danny and here for Min-Jin.
Playing at Cratfield
The concert is at 3pm on Sunday 22 July 2012.
Concert programme
Rachmaninov, Trio élégiaque no 1 in G minor (1892)
Shostakovich, Piano trio no 2 in E minor op 67 (1944)
INTERVAL
Schubert, Piano trio in E flat D929 (1827)
About the programme
Rachmaninov wrote two works for piano trio called Trio élégiaque, but no piano trio as such; this first (which has no opus number) when he was only 17, and the second two years later on the death of Tchaikovsky. Although it is in a single long movement, its construction borrows – to impressive effect – from Tchaikovsky’s piano trio op 50, and its opening four-note motif is the opening motif of Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto, in the same rhythm – but in reverse. Shostakovich began writing his Piano trio no 2 in 1943 and showed sketches to his friend and mentor, the musicologist and critic Ivan Sollertinsky. When Sollertinsky died unexpectedly in February 1944 at the age of 41 (only three years older than Shostakovich), the composer dedicated the piano trio to his memory; but its composition in the crucial stages of ‘The Great Patriotic War’ also placed it as a successor to the composer’s Seventh and Eighth Symphonies, which at least on the surface had the war as their theme. The Schubert Piano trio in E flat is one of his only two full-length works for this combination of instruments, both dating from the last and most creative phase of the composer’s short life.
CDs
Jamie and Danny have together made many CDs, which we hope will be on sale at the concert; their most recent is of cello sonatas by Britten, Prokofiev and Shostakovich for Signum. Min-Jin has recorded the Brahms and Beethoven concertos on RCA Red Seal with Sir Andrew Davis and the Philharmonia and the Brahms violin sonatas with Ian Brown for Sony.
Ticket availability (click here for the Tickets page)
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