Mendelssohn Piano Trio

Bach Sonata No. 2 in B minor for violin and keyboard, BWV 1014
Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (arr. Mendelssohn)
Mendelssohn Songs without Words, Op. 19 No. 1, ‘Sweet Remembrance’ (arr. Heifetz)
Mendelssohn Song without Words for cello and piano, Op. 109
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49*

Carmine Lauri violin
Mats Lidström cello
Francesca Lauri piano
Marios Papadopoulos piano*

It was Felix Mendelssohn who brought Bach back into currency in nineteenth-century Germany. In addition to reviving countless works by his Leipzig forebear, Mendelssohn made his own arrangements, including his expanding of the poised calligraphy of Bach’s Partitas for solo violin. This performance of two of Mendelssohn’s most effective transcriptions is capped by the composer’s own Piano Trio No. 1, a joyous conversation for violin, cello and piano in which the thunderously dramatic alternates with the gently elegiac.