Artists in Residence i Mogens Dahl Koncertsal 2008
Soo-jin Hong violin • Soo-kyung Hong cello • Jens Elvekjær piano

Our series of autumn concerts 2008 closes with our artists in residence, Trio con Brio Copenhagen. There is an aura of integrity and class around this ensemble, which is praised to the skies both at home and abroad. This year the trio made its début at Carnegie Hall, NY, and the concert tour in the US prompted enthusiastic statements like: “Perfection is a rare thing. There are few moments in our lives when we experience anything close to it … Trio con Brio took the stage and for two hours, they swept away all barriers to perfection”. Thus wrote a reviewer from the Des Moines Register after hearing the Danish trio.

This evening the trio will present a programme showing their appetite for 20th century music through the performance of Rumanian-Hungarian composer György Kurtág’s Piano Trio. His music contains traces from as diverse sources as J.S. Bach, Olivier Messiaen and Arnold Schoenberg. With Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio op. 67 from 1944 the programme includes powerful and expressive music featuring expressions of tragedy and lamentation, and the concert closes with a gem of Viennese classicism, namely Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Trio op. 1:2.

CONCERT PROGRAMME:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Piano Trio op. 1:2
György Kurtág (f. 1926) Piano Trio
Dmitrij Sjostakovitj (1906-1975) Piano Trio op. 67