EVENT DETAIL
Presented By
Melbourne Recital Centre and Seraphim Trio
Program
ARTISTS
Seraphim Trio
PROGRAM
MENDELSSOHN Selections from A Midsummer Night's Dream (arranged by Benjamin Martin)
BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Major, Op 70 No 1 'Ghost'
HOLLEY The Estuaries of Time
MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Seraphim Trio explores the intersections between Shakespeare, Mendelssohn and Beethoven, alongside a new trio by Australian composer Alan Holley. Benjamin Martin's new arrangement of Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream captures Shakespeare at his most effervescent. Beethoven's 'Ghost' Trio, inspired by Macbeth, speaks to the Bard's more serious side. The program concludes with Mendelssohn's dramatic Trio in C minor, in which Beethoven's influence is everywhere apparent, not least in his signature key.
'Unusual beauty and radiance... a sparkly performance full of graciousness, bonhomie and entertainingly witty melodrama.'
- The Australian, October 2011
'The musical integration, mutual understanding and familiarity which can emerge after years of playing and performing together...An evening of distinguished music-making'.
- The Hobart Mercury, July 2011
