Colmar International Festival : Chamber music

" The largest classical music festival in Alsace. "

Rachmaninov, Beethoven & Schumann by Trio Karenine Trio Karénine The Karénine Trio - whose new CD devoted to Liszt, Schumann and Schönberg will be released at the beginning of February 2023 - gladly accepted the invitation of the Colmar International Festival for a concert around Rachmaninov, Beethoven and Schumann. Less well known than his immense Trio No. 2, composed in memory of Tchaikovsky, the Trio No. 1 (from 1892) allows us to hear a youthful Rachmaninov (he was 19 at the time), but already so brilliantly virtuoso in form and colour. In the same dark key of G minor, Schumann's Trio No. 3 (1852) offered him, if not a model, at least a reference in terms of construction and evocative power. But the pioneer of the genre was of course Beethoven, whose 'Spirits' Trio (1809) plunged with a bang into the darkest of keys. Program Sergei Rachmaninov: Elegiac Trio No. 1 in G minor Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio in D major op.70 No.1 "The Spirits Robert Schumann: Trio No. 3 in G minor, op.110