London Mozart Players Chamber Trio: Chamber Classics at St Mary’s

A trio of trios! London Mozart Players brings perfection in triplicate to St Mary’s Putney with the London Mozart Players Chamber Trio performing three of the repertoire’s most celebrated string trios in an intimate and elegant chamber concert.

Beethoven’s Trio in C minor masterfully stages an engaging battle between the major and minor keys of C. The dramatic first movement contrasts with the heavenly slow movement in C major, followed by a rhythmic minor Scherzo, a major Trio and a final Presto.

Mozart’s divertimento K 563 is undoubtedly one of the most accomplished pieces in all chamber music. Written as ‘entertainment music’, it’s a mixture of sonata form and dance-like movements. Mozart includes a masterful Allegro, a lyrical Adagio then a lively Minuet; a song-like Andante is followed by an Allegretto Minuet before the final Rondo. It’s a complete concert within one work.

Beethoven and Mozart provide the classical framework for Dohnányi’s twentieth century masterpiece, which has echoes of Mozart, Schubert and Brahms. Dohnányi’s evocative Serenade remains true to the nineteenth century tradition, and yet its folk music references to hint at what’s to follow in the next century…