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The Blue Church Summer Concert Series was founded in 1998 by Muff Worden, a musician and teacher from the USA. Muff died in the year 2006 and the series is helt in her honour.
Efnisskráin/ Programme:
Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in g Minor, Hob XV:1 (about 1760)
Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, op. 100, D 929 (1827)
Kelly-Marie Murphy: Give Me Phoenix Wings To Fly (1997)
Founded in 2013 at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, the accio piano trio has been making music together for more than a decade, performing in Europe, USA and Asia. With a great passion for chamber music, they strive to create unique musical experiences that evoke images, emotions and memories in their audience. The ensemble’s repertoire focuses on Viennese Classicism, New Music by young Austrian composers, and rarely performed works, especially by female composers.
In this programme, the accio piano trio explores contrasting atmospheres and takes us on a journey through more than 200 years of musical history: Starting from the origins of the genre, we hear one of Joseph Haydn’s first piano trios – although still standing in baroque tradition, it surprises with intense emotions and a furious, almost fiery finale. Fire is an essential idea in Kelly-Marie Murphy’s work “Give me Phoenix Wings to Fly”: In three continued movements, roughly symbolizing fire, devastation (embers) and rebuilding, the Canadian composer draws an impressive image of the life-cycle of a Phoenix. Finally, Schubert’s famous Trio No. 2 in E flat major opens a new perspective regarding deep sentiments of light and dark – an epic work of exceptional beauty, but also an emotional rollercoaster from naive “Ländler” joy to profound “Lied” romanticism, sometimes turning to dark sadness. Especially in the funereal second movement it seems as if Schubert already sensed it would be one of his very last works…
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