Trio Fortuny

Joel Bardolet, violin | Pau Codina, cello | Marc Heredia, piano

PROGRAMME

Joan Magrané: Trois nocturnes / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in A Minor "In Memory of a Great Artist", Op. 50

Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in A Minor "In Memory of a Great Artist" is one of Tchaikovsky's great chamber works, an unpublished piece from his catalogue, as he was not very fond of the timbral combination of violin and cello. He wanted to write a work in memory of his friend Nikolai Rubinstein, who had died of a heart attack, and the insistence of his benefactress Nadezhda von Meck, who asked him to write a piano trio piece, convinced him to do so. Tchaikovsky wrote the trio in two months and it premiered in Moscow on 23 March 1882. The concert will begin with Joan Magrané's Trois Nocturnes, a work written in 2022 for the Trio Fortuny.