Ireland Phantasie Trio (Trio No 1)
Ian Venables ‘Out of the Shadows’ Op. 55 (premiere)
Interval
Schubert Piano Trio in B-flat major, D.898

Gareth Brynmor John, baritone
Phoenix Piano Trio – Jonathan Stone, violin; Christian Elliott, cello; Sholto Kynoch, piano

SJE Arts is delighted to be hosting the premier of ‘Out of the Shadows’, a song cycle scored for baritone, violin, cello and piano by the renowned British composer Ian Venables.

Although he works across many genres, Ian Venables is known especially for his art songs. He has written more than sixty and has been hailed as ‘…a song composer as fine as Finzi and Gurney’ (BBC Music Magazine). Baritone Gareth Brynmor John, winner of the 2013 Kathleen Ferrier Award, joins Phoenix Piano Trio to give the premiere.

In the last year of his life Schubert composed two piano trios, writing them within weeks of one another. Both brilliant, they are completely different. One is stormy and dramatic, causing Schumann to remark ‘a Trio by Schubert passed across the musical world like some angry comet in the sky ‘. The other is lyrical and life-affirming with echoes of Viennese popular music, of lullabies and the song of a gondolier. It is this one that Phoenix Piano Trio will play in the second half of tonight’s concert.

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