TRIO LAERTE

For the first time, the walls of MARTHA will vibrate with the unique harmonies of one of the best-known and most poignant piano and string trios in music history: the Trio in E-flat Major Op. 100 No. 2 by Franz Schubert. Performing these pages is the very young Trio Laerte.

Despite its impressive technical difficulty, the Trio is a well-known piece, especially the second movement Andante con moto, perhaps also because of its use in film in Stanley Kubrick’s famous film “Barry Lyndon.”
As Sergio Sablich writes, “among the compositions of Schubert’s last years and, paradoxically, not only among those, the Trio in E-flat major had the rare fate of not only being performed (twice!) while the composer was still alive but also of being published before his death. According to Schubert, “everyone liked it very much,” and Robert Schumann himself described it with the words “repressed fury,” “passionate nostalgia,” “deep anguish,” to the threefold summary definition: “active, virile, dramatic.”

Program

Kreisler, Caprice Viennois Op.2
Schubert, Trio for Piano and Strings in E-flat Major Op. 100 No. 2

BIO

The Laertes Trio (from the Greek Λαέρτης, Laertes: “he who gathers the people,” “who unites the people”) aims as a de facto goal to bring the public together under a common musical idea. It was born out of the need of three young musicians from Palermo to put their artistic experiences to good use, choosing to face the chamber music scene with one of the most intimate and beloved formations ever: the piano trio. Building on their knowledge of the traditional repertoire, Trio Laerte pays special attention to the emerging music of contemporary composers, enhancing their writing.

Trio Laerte consists of Mattia Arculeo on violin (1998), Sara D’Amato on cello, (2001) and Gioacchino Tubiolo on piano (1994).

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