Chamber music
- Busch Trio
- Mathieu van Bellen, violin
- Ori Epstein, violoncello
- Omri Epstein, piano
The ultimate in piano trios: Tchaikovsky's 45-minute monument to his deceased friend and mentor Nikolai Rubinstein overwhelms with its epic power and deep sadness. But the cheerful side of the great Russian musician also shines through. With this work, Tchaikovsky established the Russian tradition of writing piano trios for deceased colleagues, as Rachmaninov later did for him.
The Busch Trio with the Epstein brothers and violin virtuoso Mathieu van Bellen, who has drawn attention to himself with entire opera adaptations for the violin, inspire with their confident stylistic confidence - also in this varied programme. They begin with Beethoven's 'Ghost Trio', which had a decisive influence on the genre. George Walker, the first African-American Pulitzer Prize winner for music, created a trio in 1972 that unfolds an exciting interplay with harsh fragments of sound.
Concert recording by Deutschlandfunk Kultur
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Klaviertrio D-Dur op. 70/1 "Geistertrio"
- George Walker, "Music for Three"
- Peter Tschaikowsky, Klaviertrio a-Moll op. 50 "À la mémoire d’un grand artiste"