IN MEMORY OF THE GREAT ARTIST

Name: IN MEMORY OF THE GREAT ARTIST
Start: 2025-10-26T18:00:00+07:00
End: 2025-10-26T19:30:00+07:00
Location: SIWILAI SOUND CLUB (18 Charoen Krung 36, Amphoe Bang Rak, Bangkok, Thailand)

Schedule

Sun Oct 26 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+07:00

Location

SIWILAI SOUND CLUB (18 Charoen Krung 36, Amphoe Bang Rak, Bangkok, Thailand) | Bangkok, BM

IN MEMORY OF THE GREAT ARTIST
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op.50
Dimitri Papadopoulos Piano
Tasana Nagavajara Violin
Alexandre Vay Violoncello
6pm Sunday October 26
@SIWILAI Sound Club
Central: The Original Store, Charoen Krung
1,200 THB including a drink
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Tchaikovsky composed his only piano trio to honour his longtime friend and mentor, pianist Nikolai Rubinstein…the same man who harshly criticised his piano concerto. But that cloud over their friendship was a temporary one, and Tchaikovsky was deeply upset to hear of Rubinstein’s untimely passing in Paris at the age of 45, and gave this trio the subtitle ‘to the memory of a great artist’.
The trio is symphonic in scale. It’s a cyclic drama, filled with the most soaring, heroic euphoria, as well as the deepest tragedy and pathos. It is set in two massive movements. The first, Pezzo elegiaco (Moderato assai – Allegro giusto), unfolds in a classic sonata form. The second (Andante con moto) is a theme and variations. In an extended Finale e Coda section, its far-reaching musical adventures eventually return home to the euphoric/tragic polarity of the Trio’s opening.
A truly one-of-a-kind work, the piano trio occupies its own unique niche apart from the standard repertoire of 19th century European trios. With its thick, rich textures, wonderful melodies, effulgent emotionality and novel form, it is perfectly characteristic of the composer, exactly what we would want Tchaikovsky to compose.