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8.572063 bk Haydn Trios_EU_8.572063 bk Haydn Trios_EU 22/06/12 10.45 Pagina 4 Photo: Hanya Chlala Kungsbacka Piano Trio Formed in 1997, the Kungsbacka Piano Trio is one of the most outstanding ensembles of its generation. Winner of HAYDN First Prize in the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition it has since appeared at numerous festivals and venues throughout Europe, North and Piano Trios South America, Australia and New Zealand. Invited to take part in BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme, the Trio can be frequently heard on Radio 3. Selected as “Rising Stars” by the European Concert Nos. 14, 21, 22 and 23 Halls Organisation, the Trio gave a series of recitals all over Europe and a début recital at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Performances have included appearances at the Kungsbacka Piano Trio Schwetzinger, Mecklenburgh-Vorpommern, Bremen, Lockenhaus and Presteigne Festivals and the BBC Proms, and residencies at the Lofoten and Båstad International Chamber Music Festivals. In London the Trio performs regularly at the Wigmore and the Cadogan Halls. Recordings include Schubert, Haydn and Mozart Piano Trios and Chopin’s Piano Trio, Op. 8 for Naxos as well as the world première of Karen Rehnqvist’s Beginning for Piano Trio, commissioned for the Trio and released on BIS. Other commissions have included works by composers such as Daniel Bortz, Joe Duddell, Helen Grime, Paul Stanhope and Mark-Anthony Turnage. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden presented the Trio with the prestigious Interpret Prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The Trio takes its name from the Swedish town in which it gave its first performance and where it has established an annual festival. 8.572063 8.572063 bk Haydn Trios_EU_8.572063 bk Haydn Trios_EU 22/06/12 10.45 Pagina 2 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Piano Trios, Hob. XV:14, 21, 22 and 23 original key, and exists as a separate piano piece, so with the Piano Trio in A flat major, Hob. XV:14, which copied by Haydn’s amanuensis, Johann Elssler. With its was ready to be sent to Artaria in January that year. The Born in 1732 in the village of Rohrau, near the modern instrument, as the fortepiano and then the pianoforte, hand-crossing in the piano part the movement explores first movement, its sonata form exposition repeated, border between Austria and Slovakia, Joseph Haydn with their hammer action and dynamic possibilities, a wide range of the keyboard. The final Allegro, in the entrusts the principal theme, with its question and was the son of a wheelwright. He had his musical gradually replaced the harpsichord and clavichord. At original key, is of comparable dimensions, with answer, first to the piano. The same theme returns in the training as a chorister at St Stephen’s Cathedral in the same time there was a parallel change in elaborate modulating arpeggios in the central dominant as a second subject. The central development Vienna and thereafter earned a living as best he could instrumental forms, as the structure that has come to be development section, leading to the key of C sharp brings various shifts of key, including a change to B from teaching and playing the violin or keyboard. known, among other titles, as sonata-allegro form, minor and then A major, shifting skilfully to the original major and the apparent return of the theme in During these earlier years he was able to learn from the developed. Haydn’s Keyboard Trios, of which he left key in recapitulation. recapitulation, before the music takes another turn. old composer Porpora, whose assistant he became. some thirty, are generally given the title of Sonata, The third of the set, the Piano Trio in D minor, Eventually the original key is restored for the Haydn’s first regular employment came in 1759 as whether for harpsichord or piano, with the Hob. XV.23, starts with a movement in double variation abbreviated recapitulation proper. The E major Adagio Kapellmeister to a Bohemian nobleman, Count von accompaniment usually of violin and cello. The earliest form, the D minor theme, each half of which is allows the violin the principal melody, each half of Morzin. This was followed in 1761 by appointment as work of this kind dates from 1784 and the last from repeated, alternating with a D major theme, each varied which is repeated before a central section, in E minor, Vice-Kapellmeister to one of the richest men in the 1797. in turn. The slow movement is in B flat major, its main with elaborate rapid piano figuration, accompanied by Empire, Prince Paul Anton Esterházy, succeeded on his The three Piano Trios, Hob. XV:21-23, were theme announced by the piano. There is an element of the plucked notes of violin and cello. The movement death in 1762 by his brother Prince Nicolaus. On the published in London in 1795, before Haydn left elaborate figuration before the main theme returns, ends with the return of the first section. The last death in 1766 of the elderly and somewhat obstructive England to return home in August that year. The three transformed. The last movement is in D major, its main movement, which starts without a pause, is a sonata- Kapellmeister, Gregor Werner, Haydn succeeded to his Trios were dedicated to Princess Marie Ermenegild theme including chromatic notes and its exposition rondo, its exposition repeated, one of those forms that position, remaining in the same employment, nominally Esterházy, wife of the new head of the family, Prince repeated. The piano writing, as elsewhere in this set of Haydn knew so well how to handle, lively and at least, until his death in 1809. Nicolaus II. The first of the set, the Piano Trio in C Trios, is effective and sometimes demanding. innovative, and a fitting end to the work. Much of Haydn’s service of the Esterházys was at major, Hob. XV:21, opens with a six-bar introduction, Early in 1790 Haydn offered a new set of Trios to the new palace of Eszterháza on the Hungarian plains, a marked Adagio pastorale. This is followed by a sonata the publisher Artaria, presumably the group opening Keith Anderson complex of buildings to rival Versailles in form movement, its first subject repeated in the magnificence. Here he was responsible for the musical dominant key before the appearance of a secondary establishment and its activities, including regular theme, over a drone bass. The exposition is repeated instrumental concerts and music for the theatre, opera before the central development, with a briefly dramatic and church. For his patron he provided a variety of interpolation, and final recapitulation. The violin chamber music, in particular for the Prince’s favourite introduces the principal theme of the G major slow instrument, the baryton. movement, then taken up and embellished by the piano. On the death of Prince Nicolaus in 1790 Haydn was This is followed by a minor key version of the theme, able to accept an invitation from the violinist- which returns in the major, before it is entrusted to the impresario Salomon to visit London, where he already violin, now in E minor, with further modulations enjoyed a considerable reputation. He was in London leading to the return of the original key and theme. The for a second time in 1794 and 1795, after which he last movement, both halves of which are repeated, after returned to duty with the Esterházy family, now chiefly a repetition of the first eight bars, is in a modified sonata at the family residence in Eisenstadt, where he had form, its theme and opening suggesting a rondo. started his career. Much of the year, however, was The Piano Trio in E flat major, Hob. XV:22, is a passed in Vienna, where he spent his final years, dying more demanding and ambitious work. The repeated as the city fell once more into the power of Napoleon’s exposition makes use of semiquaver sextuplet army. figuration, the violin now playing a more important if Haydn’s keyboard music was at first written for the still subsidiary rôle. The development, with its harpsichord, with later works clearly intended for the significant modulations, is duly followed by a final pianoforte, as dynamic markings show. His career recapitulation. The second movement, marked Poco coincided with changes in the standard keyboard adagio, is, unusually, in G major, the mediant of the 8.572063 23 8.572063 8.572063 bk Haydn Trios_EU_8.572063 bk Haydn Trios_EU 22/06/12 10.45 Pagina 2 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Piano Trios, Hob. XV:14, 21, 22 and 23 original key, and exists as a separate piano piece, so with the Piano Trio in A flat major, Hob. XV:14, which copied by Haydn’s amanuensis, Johann Elssler. With its was ready to be sent to Artaria in January that year. The Born in 1732 in the village of Rohrau, near the modern instrument, as the fortepiano and then the pianoforte, hand-crossing in the piano part the movement explores first movement, its sonata form exposition repeated, border between Austria and Slovakia, Joseph Haydn with their hammer action and dynamic possibilities, a wide range of the keyboard. The final Allegro, in the entrusts the principal theme, with its question and was the son of a wheelwright. He had his musical gradually replaced the harpsichord and clavichord. At original key, is of comparable dimensions, with answer, first to the piano. The same theme returns in the training as a chorister at St Stephen’s Cathedral in the same time there was a parallel change in elaborate modulating arpeggios in the central dominant as a second subject.