Beaux Arts Trio

Wed., April 4, 8 p.m., Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce streets

by Peter Burwasser

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Published: Mar 27, 2007

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Musical ensembles don't get any more venerable than the Beaux Arts Trio. Look up "piano trio" in your Funk and Wagnalls, and this now-over-half-century-old enterprise should be pictured. Remarkably, the founding pianist, Menahem Pressler, is still at it, now joined by two young colleagues, violinist Daniel Hope and cellist Antonio Meneses. The Beaux Arts Trio has visited Philadelphia regularly over the years, as perennial guests of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. For this visit, they bring a program that crosses over time in a way that reflects the multigenerational makeup of the trio. There will be a local premiere, Slow Pavane, from jazz-influenced British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage; a Shostakovich trio; and two works by Schubert — his Notturno, and the Piano Trio in B-flat, one of the great plums of the repertoire and a No. 1 hit with a bullet for the world's most famous piano trio.

Wed., April 4, 8 p.m., $22, Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce streets, 215-569-8080, pcmsconcerts.org.

 

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