Feniks Trio & Anuschka Pedano

Rachmaninoff composed his first Trio élégiaque when he was only eighteen years old approximately the same age as Feniks violinist Tess Verweij. Its deeply melancholic music immediately draws listeners into the concert. Anuschka Pedano then joins the trio for Turina’s Piano Quartet a work that evokes the atmosphere of a Spanish garden bathed in evening light. The program concludes with Schumann’s Piano Quartet. Although performed less frequently than his famous Piano Quintet it is every bit as brilliant. Its classical structure and transparent writing give all instruments an equal voice. The third movement features an unforgettable cello melody and in the finale the lowest string is tuned down by a whole tone creating a distinctive warm sonority.

In the Uilenburger Synagogue audiences will be swept away by these exceptional young musicians.

Musicians
Max Valkenburcht Dombrowski
 piano
Tess Verweij violin
Jurre Koopmans cello
Anuschka Pedano viola

Jurre Koopmans plays a Thomas Meuwissen cello (Brussels, 2008) with an Emil Werner bow from the collection of the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation (Het Muziekinstrumentenfonds).