Praised for ‘hypnotic lyricism, causing listeners to forget where they were for a moment’, Trio Brontë returns with an enticing programme of buoyant Schubert and the impressive trio of the German composer Enno Poppe.

Poppe’s only trio has been described as ‘avant-garde, personal, fiendishly difficult, and impressive in its intensity and structural arch’. It is paired with Schubert’s first trio, described as ‘a large-scale work that doesn’t feel like one’. It is contemporary with his ‘Winterreise’ but so much more optimistic in outlook that Schumann said of it: ‘one glance at Schubert's Trio and the troubles of our human existence disappear and all the world is fresh and bright again’.

Trio Brontë:
Chiara Sannicandro violin
Annie Jacobs-Perkins cello
Lili Bogdanova piano