Helderberg Village Music Society Concert
Sun Aug 18, 15:30 - Sun Aug 18, 18:00
Talani Terrace
ABOUT
HELDERBERG VILLAGE MUSIC SOCIETY
has a pleasure in presenting
“Trio Treats”
with the Jacaranda Piano Trio
(Albie van Schalkwyk- piano, Johanna Roos – violin and Jessica Bailey -cello.)
An afternoon of captivating musical expression, flamboyant Spanish rhythms and majestic Russian landscapes with the Jacaranda Piano Trio. The programme opens with Beethoven’s third Piano trio which has remained very popular with the public since its first performance. It takes the audience through a range of emotional outbursts and even an explosion of fireworks during the Finale.
From Beethoven’s Vienna the audience is transported to the rhythms, spicy flavours and colours of Spain with Turina’s second Piano Trio. Turina is a Spanish nationalistic composer, greatly influenced by the charm of French masters such as Debussy and Ravel.
The final treat is the first Piano Trio (originally titled Poème) of a passionate 17-year-old Shostakovich in love. During the time of composition, Shostakovich’s nighttime job was to improvise at the piano for still films- look out for the sudden wild contrasts. Kai Christiansen describes the composition beautifully: “As with the mature Shostakovich, sincerity mingles with irony, hope with despair, the lovely with the grotesque, the real with the surreal.”
Talani Terrace
Helderberg Village, 63 Bakkerskloof Road Somerset West
Sunday, 18 August 2024. 15:30 for 16:00
(present your tickets at Security for access to the Village)