BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY OF NORTHERN IRELAND 1952 1953 SECOND RECITAL under the auspices of THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST RUBBRA-GRUENBERG-PLEETH TRIO EDMUND RUBBRA, Pianoforte ERIC GRUENBERG, Violin WILLIAM PLEETH, Cello The Sir William Whitla Hall Queen's University, Belfast FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14th 1952

TRIO No. 4 IN E MAJOR, K. 548 W. A. Mozart (1756-1791) Allegro Andante Cantabile Allegro Mozart hardly attached as much importance to the piano trio as to the piano quartet, and in his earlier efforts in the form he more nearly approaches the style of Haydn's trios which are little more than piano and violin duets with the 'cello strengthening the bass. By 1788-the year of the last three symphonies when this trio appeared, this doubling of the bass by the 'cello is seldom to be found; we find full effect given to the 'cello as an independent member of the group. The piano fills a virtuoso rôle. TRIO Edmund Rubbra (1901-) Andante moderato Edmund Rubbra's trio was commissioned for the Festival of Contemporary Music at Cheltenham in 1950. It is a single- movement work but falls roughly into three parts. The first part opens with a lovely soaring melody played mainly in octaves by the strings above a flowing piano part. It undergoes many transformations, one of which, in slow 6/8 time, links the first section to the second. This, an episidio scherzando, has a motto theme of five notes which forms the basis for the rich harmonization in this section. The last is a theme with three meditations and a short coda. The three sections of the work are so closely interlinked as to make it impossible to regard the whole as other than a single-movement work. INTERVAL

TRIO IN E FLAT MAJOR, OP. 100 Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Allegro Andante con moto Scherzo Allegro moderato Schubert's Op. 100, written in November, 1827, was played several times in Schubert's life-time and was published in 1828, the composer receiving 17s. 6d. for his fee. Schumann says of this trio that it "passed across the face of the musical world like some angry portent in the sky." Its first movement, he says, is "eloquent of extreme anger and passionate longing"; the second is "a sigh, rising to spiritual anguish." He sums up the whole work as "active, masculine, dramatic."

The programme for Wilhelm Kempff's recital on 5th December will include:-Bach, Italian Concerto; Beethoven, Op. 110; Brahms, Four Ballades, Op. 10; Schumann, Etudes Symphoniques. Members are reminded of Gerald Moore's lecture-recital to be given under the auspices of the Belfast Philharmonic Society on Saturday, 22nd November. Tickets at Crymble's.