Concert Program

Josef Suk
Klaviertrio c-Moll op. 2

Bohuslav Martinů
Klaviertrio Nr. 3 C-Dur

Josef Suk
Elegie Des-Dur für Klaviertrio op. 23a 

Antonín Dvořák
Klaviertrio Nr. 4 e-Moll op. 90 »Dumky«


For the last time, our Philharmonic Chamber Music Series traces this season’s theme of identities: the Philharmonia Piano Trio devotes itself to three Czech composers who combined the cultivation of their national idiom with openness to international influences. For his famous “Dumky Trio”, Antonín Dvořák was inspired by Ukrainian folk songs with their rapid changes of mood. Slavic temperament also characterises the two works by Josef Suk, Dvořák’s pupil and later son-in-law. Bohuslav Martinů’s Trio No. 3 with its captivating rhythms is also a homage to his Czech homeland.