Margie and I went to a concert in Lilla Salen here in Västerås on Saturday afternoon with Trio Zilliacus Persson Raitinen. They played a very good programme ending with the great Mozart Divertimento.We like to sit right at the front and get the full experience, coughs and all! Most people won't sit in the very front row, but it must have been almost full, because there were already a few people in the front row when we sat down, and it filled up completely.
This is a group well worth hearing. The string trio repertoire isn't very large, and there's one great master piece (the Mozart). Zilliacus and Persson played the second Mozart Duo first. This is a seldom heard very fine piece for Violin and Viola. The first duo is played slightly more often, and is a touch easier to play!
After that the cellist played a wonderful cello solo piece by Sibelius which was only discovered relatively recently when clearing out a summer house (or some such place).
Then there was a modern work, which was more enjoyable that we expected! After the interval was the tour-de-force, a work I know very well, since in the seventies while these three were in dagis, when our quartet lost one the the violinists (she moved to Hampshire) we worked at this not realising quite how difficult it was!
After the concert we went and ate a very nice meal in Ruffinos followed by too many beers in the Sky Bar.
All in all a very nice day.
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Frank hej. Last Sunday I also experienced the Zilliacus Persson Raitinen string trio. The programme was for sure the one that you heard. The modern piece you mentioned was that the Sandström five pieces for string trio, the work written especially for them? A true masterwork by a true magician: the trio are coming to play for us hopefully in the Autumn. The Mozart Divertimento Es-Dur, yes profound, a wonderful profound work. Both these works were played with great sensitivity and understanding. Loved the Sibelius, however it really needed a solo performer, longer bowing, more fullness more richness.
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