Batiashvili / Capuçon / Thibaudet

The concert at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, part of the Chamber Music Season of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, features three artists from the international music scene—violinist Lisa Batiashvili, cellist Gautier Capuçon, and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet—who meet in Rome for a program spanning a century of chamber music.

The evening opens with Dmitrij Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 1, written in 1923 when he was just sixteen years old, while the Russian composer, still a student at the Conservatory, was convalescing in Crimea for tuberculosis. Consisting of a single movement with varying tempi, the Trio is characterized by a youthful lyricism that links it to the other early work to follow on the program, Claude Debussy's Trio in G major. Composed around 1880, when the French musician, also a student at the Conservatory, was not yet 18, the Trio is characterized by a score that, while heavily influenced by Romantic music, is nonetheless fresh and vital. Finally, the evening concludes with the Piano Trio No. 3 by Antonín Dvořák, a composition that clearly demonstrates the style of the great Czech musician, influenced on the one hand by the classical-romantic tradition, and on the other by folk music and song.

Program:

Shostakovich Trio n.1, op.8
Debussy Piano Trio in G major
Dvořák Piano Trio no. 3, op. 65

violin Lisa Batiashvili
cello Gautier Capuçon
piano Jean-Yves Thibaudet