LUÍS DE FREITAS BRANCO ROOM
Composed with a distance of more than fifty years, the two pieces clearly demonstrate the very individual styles of the authors and also the differences between them – one looks at the past, the other towards the future.
Although less known than the quartets, Haydn’s trios are pieces of great interest and quality. The Trio no. 39 has the particularity of not containing any Sonata-form and starting with two slow tempos – a sign of the renowned originality of the composer?
The Mendelssohn’s Quartet in F minor was written soon after the death of the sister’s composer, which probably explains the heavy and sad atmosphere, but of an exacerbated romanticism.
CHAT WITH PAULO FERREIRA DE CASTRO
MUSICOLOGIST
PROGRAMME
1st Part
JOSEF HAYDN (1732-1809)
Piano trio no. 39 in G Sol major, Hob. XV:25 (1795)
CRISTIANA ABREU violin
SOFIA GOMES cello
PAULO PACHECO piano
2nd Part
FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
Quartet in F minor, op. 80 (1847)
ARTZEN QUARTET
ANA CRISTINA FERNANDES PEREIRA 1st violin
ANA FILIPA RODRIGUES SERRÃO 2nd violin
JOANA RAMOS CIPRIANO viola
CAROLINA MORAIS MATOS Matos cello