Three’s Company

A group of women composers resolving the piano-versus-strings tension at the heart of the piano trio. Clara Schumann broke a path for female musicians in 19th-century Germany as much more than a wife to her composer husband. Rebecca Clarke and Charlotte Sohy composed music of new-found freedom in early 20th-century England and France. Coming up to date, Cecilia McDowall encloses a tribute to music’s perpetual revolutionary Beethoven at the heart of her magical nocturne.

Programme

Charlotte Sohy: Piano Trio

Rebecca Clarke: Piano Trio

Interval

Cecilia McDowall: Cavatina at Midnight

Clara Schumann: Piano Trio