Concert Details

Rosamunde Piano Trio
with Rivka Golani viola

The famous Rosamunde Trio begin the first of six concerts exploring the relationship between Mozart’s chamber music and later French nineteenth-century music that draws upon his unique classical style of refinement, taste and pathos. This concert features famous ‘early’ masterworks, beginning with the piano trio by Debussy, composed in 1879 when he was just 17. Mozart’s first piano trio follows, composed when he was 20: Faure’s first piano quartet dates from the same time as the Debussy trio, but completed in the early 1880s, its protracted gestation almost certainly drawing upon the turmoil of his relationship with Marianne Viardot.