For his first chamber evening in Ostrava, JFO resident soloist Johannes Moser has invited violinist Vadim Gluzman and pianist Andrei Korobeininkov. Together they will perform two masterpieces of piano trio: Schubert’s lyrical and moving E flat major, one of the pillars of chamber music, and Tchaikovsky’s deeply personal, passionate composition dedicated to the memory of his friend Nikolai Rubinstein.

Franz Schubert
Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 100, D. 929

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50

Vadim Gluzman – violin
Johannes Moser – cello
Andrei Korobeinikov – piano

Cellist Johannes Moser, the JPO’s artist-in-residence, has invited two world-renowned musicians to join him for the first concert of the chamber series: Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman and Russian pianist Andrei Korobeinikov.

Franz Schubert composed his Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major in November 1827, near the end of his short life. In this composition, which has become a cornerstone of the piano trio repertoire, Schubert follows in the footsteps of Ludwig van Beethoven’s musical legacy.

Schubert himself included the trio on the program of a private concert held in Vienna on March 26, 1828, the first anniversary of Beethoven’s death.

“I simply cannot endure the combination of piano with solo violin or cello. It seems to me that their tone colors are incompatible. It is pure torture for me to listen to any trio or sonata for piano with violin or cello.”

So wrote Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to his patroness Nadezhda von Meck after she requested a composition for piano trio in 1880. It took Tchaikovsky a full year to overcome his reservations and attempt to creatively experiment with the sound of piano and two strings.

The resulting Piano Trio in A minor, dedicated “to the memory of a great artist” — Nikolai Rubinstein — overflows with striking color, passionate expressivity, lyricism, and a distinctive elegiac spirit.