Frank Peter Zimmermann . Antoine Tamestit . Christian Poltéra - UITGESTELD!

PLEASE NOTE! The date of this concert has been changed to Friday 26 Sepember 2008. Frank-Peter Zimmermann is one of the greatest violinists of our time. Together with two leading musicians of the younger generation, we are taken back in time to an aristocratic salon in Vienna at the end of the 18th century. A string trio for violin, viola and cello was then all the rage and no less worthy than a string quartet. It went on to develop as a form in its own right, as the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert testify. We should not be misled by the entry in Mozart's work register, dated 27 September 1788 which says "One Divertimento for violin, viola and cello". The title leads us to suppose that it is nothing more than a simple, neat little work written for a light occasion. The reality is that it is one of his most well-constructed masterpieces. The three String Trios opus 9 by the young Beethoven are equal to his earlier String Quartets. It is a well-known fact that Schubert regularly sat down at home with his father and brothers and played a string trio or two, some of which were their own inventions. Schubert's 1816 String Trio in Bb is unfinished. All that exists are 39 bars of a slow section and a Mozartian allegro, after that his handwriting tapers off…..