New World Trio concert
New World Trio will perform works for piano trio by Enescu, Beethoven, and Dvorak with violinist Anhared Stowe, cellist Peter Zay, and pianist David Ballena.
Unitarian Universalist Society East, 153 Vernon Street West, Manchester, CT 3PM Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. Suggested
donation $20. For information 860 586-8579, www.newworldtrio.org
George Enescu composed his beautiful Serenade Lointaine for piano trio
when he was just 21 years old. Although composed in 1903, the trio was
discovered only recently. This opening work explores the Romantic side
of the piano trio, and the warmness of Enescu’s textures highlight his
influences from the Romantic era. In his Trio #1, Op 1, Beethoven
places content over form for the first time, creating an unprecedented
equality between the instruments. Here, the composer is no longer
simply accommodating a listener’s desire for formulaic comfort but is
instead leading his audience into his own sensibilities. Beethoven’s
brilliance is so compelling that his privileged-class patrons only
dimly realize that he has created a pathway for artists to emerge as a
significant moral force. Antonin Dvorak’s Dumky Trio is one of the
composer’s best-known works, and most original. Of Ukrainian origin,
dumky refers to epic, lamenting, ballads. During the nineteenth
century, Slavic composers began transforming these songs into a
classical form. Their brooding, introspective themes are contrasted
with lively, cheerful sections. Dvorak’s trio is the most-loved of
these legendary ballads.
