PREVIEW NOTES

Kalichstein‐Laredo‐Robinson Trio w/ Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola Thursday, January 30 – 8:00 PM Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center

Program No. 2 the return of the , which is also shortened. C André Previn Minor reappears at the beginning of the Finale, marked Born: April 6, 1929 in Berlin, Germany Allegro appassionato and in 6/8 meter. The short, Composed: 2011 modular theme is first stated in the cello. In the midst of Philadelphia Premiere the development section, Mendelssohn inserts the Duration: N/A theme of a , "Vor deinen Thron (Before your throne)," presented almost literally and mingled with Previn composed his Piano Trio No. 2 for the Kalichstein‐ statements of the first theme. When this chorale tune Laredo‐Robinson Trio on a commission from Music returns in the coda, it is given massive, symphonic Accord. The first movement centers around a repeated‐ treatment and is completely detached from the first note figure in the piano. This motive come out of, and is theme. developed by, a flurry of interplay between the cello and violin. The slower second movement is divided into in E‐flat Major, Op. 87 two sections. The first is based on a lyrical cello song, Antonín Dvořák and the second is centered around a falling, three note Born: September 8, 1841 in Nelahozeves, Bohemia phrase in the violin. The work closes with a light, dance‐ Died: May 1, 1904 in Prague, Czech Republic like movement that features the skipping rhythms of a Composed: 1889 traditional gigue at beginning and end and a cross‐ Last PCMS performance: rhythm, triple‐meter section with a long, graceful violin Members of the Miro Quartet with Shai Wosner, 2011 theme at its center. Duration: 36 minutes

Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 66 Filled with sonorous strength, the opening movement of ‐Bartholdy Dvořák’s piano quartet is cased in an expansive sonata Born: February 3, 1809 in Hamburg, Germany form. The first theme is stated powerfully with the Died: November 4, 1847 in , Germany strings all in unison, pitting the strings against the piano Composed: 1845 throughout. The second theme follows with an unusual Last PCMS performance: KLR Trio, 2009 harmonic structure. The second theme is traditionally Duration: 30 minutes composed in the dominant, but here Dvořák puts his theme in the mediant. After the development of the Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in C Minor is extremely work, the recapitulation serves as an outpouring of inward and introspective in nature. The first movement sound. Full tutti sound and colorful tremolos bring the opens with sweeping arpeggios in the piano that are opening movement to a symphonic end. The second soon mimicked by the strings. Its generic components movement is much more subdued. Purely lyrical, the make the theme very flexible and well suited to sonata work shifts between five themes that represent the form and to contrapuntal elaboration, which occurs different moods of the work. The third movement, the frequently in the movement. Mendelssohn presents the most folkloristic of the four, consists of two contrasting second movement in the relative major, E‐Flat. Its dances; its central section deploys the piano in such a subdued main theme, played first in block chords in the way that it sounds, perhaps, like a hammer dulcimer or piano, sets the tone for the whole movement. The third other Eastern European folk instrument. The closing movement begins with an energetic scherzo that gives movement is much like the opening. The relationship way to a lyrical trio. After the trio has run its course, a between the movements is implied by the dramatic significantly shortened reprise of the trio forms a link to opening unisons.