Busch Trio: Tschaikowsky

In the organizer's words:

Busch Trio

Mathieu van Bellen: violin

Ori Epstein: violoncello

Omri Epstein: piano

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio op. 70/1 "Ghost Trio"

George Walker: "Music for Three"

Peter Tchaikovsky: Piano trio op. 50 "À la mémoire d'un grand artiste"

The ultimate in piano trios: Tchaikovsky's 45-minute monument to his deceased friend and mentor Nikolai Rubinstein overwhelms with its epic power and deep sadness. But the cheerful side of the great Russian musician also shines through.

The Busch Trio with the Epstein brothers and violin virtuoso Mathieu van Bellen, who has drawn attention to himself with entire opera adaptations for the violin, inspires with confident stylistic confidence - also in this varied program. They begin with Beethoven's "Ghost Trio", which had a decisive influence on the genre. George Walker, the first African-American Pulitzer Prize winner for music, created a trio in 1972 that unfolds an exciting interplay with harsh fragments of sound.