Schubert Trios/2 Presented by Liszt Academy

The second concert in the Schubert trios series erects a memorial to the composer’s thirtieth, and at the same time his penultimate year: all three works played here date from 1827. The two pillars of the programme are the B-flat major trio, which in parts swells with a vital energy and elsewhere projects a Viennese tone of bonhomie, and Schubert’s last piece for violin and piano, the Fantasy in C major, the central element of which is the variation series made for the composer’s earlier song Sei mir gegrüsst! The meditative and tragic-toned Notturno performed between these two may originally have been the slow movement of the B-flat major trio. Guest of Vilmos Szabadi and Gábor Farkas – similarly to the first concert in the series – is cellist Camille Thomas, who is in her early thirties. As soloist and chamber musician, she belongs among the leading artists of her day: her last two albums were released by Deutsche Grammophon and she plays on the ‘Feuermann’ Stradivari cello thanks to the generosity of the Nippon Music Foundation.