On the 28th of March, I decided to attend yet another trio concert at the breathtaking Dr. Bobbie Bailey & Family Performance Center. Arriving on time, I walked in and took my sit immediately as if I was a regular at this point. The daunting and new hall that I entered for the first concert has now become more of a comforting place filled with amazing musicians. Like the last concert at this hall, this concert was compromised of a trio. It was nice to see Charae Krueger (cello) and Robert Henry (piano) appear once more on stage, but there was a new face to be seen. Rather than John Warren walking out, Helen Kim (violin) had taken the stage to finish the trio off. While I waited for the concert to begin, I began to sift through the program and …show more content…
Right as I began to dive into Kim’s biography, the lights dimmed and the trio took the stage. After tuning and preparing themselves, the trio began the first piece, Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, “Archduke”.
The piece begins in Allegro Moderato with the piano leading an already powerful ranged melody on top of a powerful low range rhythm. The strings seem to slowly creep in for the few seconds, but soon the intensity builds. The piano strikes twice and then rests while the strings play a beautifully haunting melody on top. This persists three times with the piano seeming to descend chord wise. The same feeling is felt throughout the piece, but in a different kind of sense. This can be seen in the development section as the piano does not come to full stops, but rather evokes the feeling of a short stop with high ranged notes being played. The development begins to unravel into a beautiful scene of descending dissonant notes contrasted with accessible melodies from the strings. Although it was interesting to see themes come back again and again in a piece, at …show more content…
Knowing this, I was fully ready to experience Tchaikovsky’s Trio in A minor Op. 50. The first movement, Pezzo elegiaco starts with piano with a quickly followed cello creating a beautifully, tragic sound. The feeling of the movement begins to build as the piano joins in and at this moment I knew I was in for a treat. The cello and violin sway back and forth before the violin plays arguably the most beautiful short melody that I have ever heard in my life. From this point on I yearned to hear this melody once more. The violin feels at the forefront of the movement as the cello plays a disjuncted melody at a lower dynamic range. Eventually, the piano comes back and plays the melody from the beginning of the movement once more while the strings fall back. After this, the feeling shifts in the movement moves into a more sophisticated sound in a sense. The intensity still remains as the violin shrills above the other instruments creating a beautiful scene. I knew at the end of this movement that it was my favorite of the concert and felt as though I could not, in words, express the feelings that I felt while experiencing it. Although sad, the piece shifted into the second movement, Tema con variazioni. This was a piano solo movement in which the pianist, Robert Henry, seemed to just enjoy himself as the piano evoked such beauty