BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY OF NORTHERN IRELAND 1965 1966 THIRD RECITAL under the auspices of THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST Oromonte Piano Trio Violin PERRY HART ☆ BRUNO SCHRECKER NINA MILKINA ☆ 'Cello Pianoforte SIR WILLIAM WHITLA HALL Queen's University, Belfast THURSDAY, 13th JANUARY, 1966 at 7.45 p.m.

Trio in F sharp minor, no 2 Allegro Adagio cantabile Finale: Tempo di menuetto Written in 1794-5 this trio is numbered 2 in the Peters edition, 26 in the Larsen catalogue. Haydn wrote thirty-one Klavier trios, mostly dating from his maturity. They contain very fine music, but, except for two or three of them, have not succeeded in establishing themselves in the concert repertoire. Haydn himself described them as sonatas for Klavier with violin and violoncello. The keyboard part is master. In the earliest trios the cello part is a mechanical reinforcement of the pianoforte bass, a role it often fills in this sonata. The violin is very much freer, though tied closely enough to the pianoforte; but its function, on the whole, is that of an obbligato instrument. As a result the trios do not appeal to the virtuoso string player; it is this fact and no inherent musical weakness that keeps them from the platform. The second movement of this trio has material in common with the slow movement of Symphony no 102 in B flat. It is not known which was composed first. Trio in B flat major, D.898 Allegro moderato Andante un poco mosso Scherzo: Allegro Rondo: Allegro vivace Franz Schubert (1797-1828) This trio was written in 1827 and had one most successful performance in the composer's lifetime. It was published post- humously with the Opus no 99, which, like most of the opus numbers assigned to Schubert's works is meaningless. Between Haydn and Schubert had come Beethoven who had vastly enriched the content of the trio by giving independent life to the three instruments. Schubert was greatly influenced by Beethoven's

example and in the first movement of this trio one feels that the instruments heard singly would give fascinating solo performances. The second movement consists of two song-like motives, the first being given to the cello joined later by the violin, with the piano playing a restrained accompaniment subtly varied within narrow limits, the second to the piano with a rich duet on the strings. The scherzo is a ländler-like movement, in the trio of which the strings are predominant over a pianoforte accompaniment. The complexity of the final rondo shows again the influence of Beethoven. INTERVAL Trio in B major, Op 8 Allegro con brio Scherzo: Allegro molto Adagio Allegro Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) The opus number of this work is very misleading. Brahms wrote and published this work as his opus 8 in 1854. It became popular, but when he transferred his work to a different publisher in 1888 he acceded to a request to rewrite it. The revision was considerable, so much so that he jokingly suggested calling it Op 108. The scherzo remained practically unchanged. So, in the other move- ments, did the opening themes, but the subsidiary material and the developments were drastically altered. In the first movement there was a great gain in concision. N.B. - MEMBERS ARE ASKED TO NOTE THAT THE NEXT CONCERT, ON JANUARY 28, WILL BE BROADCAST AND WILL START PUNCTUALLY AT 7.45 P.M. THE INTERVAL WILL BE OF PRECISELY 15 MINUTES.

Next Concerts . . . Friday, January 28 HEATHER HARPER (Soprano) GEOFFREY PARSONS (Pianoforte) Have you seen but the white lily grow? O too lovely (Artaxerxes) On the brow of Richmond Hill Heark the echoing air (Fairy Queen) Lambertine: Der Jüngling an der Quelle: An den Mond (Goethe): Die Vögel: Dem Unendlichen L'invitation au voyage: Chanson triste: Extase: Phidyle Three Ophelia songs: Einerlei: Schlechtes Wetter: Meinem Kinde: Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten Canticle no 1, My beloved is mine Folk song arrangements; The sally gardens: Sweet Polly Oliver: Oliver Cromwell Friday, February 11 March 4 ANDOR FOLDES (Pianoforte) Three Moments musicaux, Op 94 Bagatelles, Op 126 Sonata in C major, Op 53 (Waldstein) Five preludes from Book 1 Three pieces from the Hary-Janos Suite THE PRAGUE STRING QUARTET Quartet in F major, Op 18 no 1 Quartet no 3 (in one movement, 1927) Quartet in A flat major, Op 105 Friday, March 18 JOANNA MARTZY (Violin) JEAN ANTONIETTI (Pianoforte) Sonata in E major, no 6 Partita in D minor no 2 (unaccompanied) Sonata in A major, Op 162 Sonata in D major, Op 94 no 2 Anon Arne Purcell Schubert Duparc R. Strauss Britten Schubert Beethoven Debussy Kodaly-Foldes Beethoven Bartok Dvorak Handel Bach Schubert Prokofiev