In this concert, İmge Tilif (violin), Gözde Yaşar (cello) and İnci Yakar Birol (piano) are to play piano trios by Haydn and Brahms. Unfortunately, the programme for this concert is not available online. However, it is likely that of the 45 trios Haydn wrote it will be one of the later ones – virtuosic, harmonically adventurous and much admired by critics – that will be performed. The American pianist, author and critic Charles Rosen says of these trios (in his book The Classical Style) that they are ‘along with the Mozart concertos the most brilliant piano works before Beethoven.’
Brahms wrote his Piano Trio No 1 in B major in 1854, his Piano Trio No 2 in C major between 1880 and 1882, and his Piano Trio No 3 in C minor in 1886. All three of these works have four movements. There is also a Piano Trio in A major that is sometimes attributed to Brahms, and described as his ‘Piano Trio No 4’; the manuscript, not in Brahms’s handwriting and lacking a title page, was discovered in 1924.
Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
