HAYDN FESTIVAL 2011

The Trio performed Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven on period instruments at this Festival in Bridgnorth. Jan also performed Mozart Concerto K491on fortepiano with the English Haydn Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Halstead.

The theme of the 2011 Festival was in particular Joseph Haydn’s influence on the musical interaction between with Mozart, during the years 1780 to 1793, and include his visits to London. The Rautio Trio features Haydn’s wonderful Trio’s 38-40 which are dedicated to Rebecca Schroeter, a wealthy widow of Haydn’s acquaintance in London.

CHICHESTER CHAMBER CONCERTS 2011

The Rautio Trio presenting a programme of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and featured John Casken’s Trio, written in 2002. John gave a brief talk during the concert to introduce his music with short excerpts from the Trio. The Rautios have played John’s Trio several times, including at the Purcell Room for Park Lane Young Artists Platform, live on Radio 3 ‘In Tune’ and plan to record it in the near future.

SOUND FESTIVAL 2010

The trio gave three concerts in Scotland as part of the SOUND Festival, featuring ‘Seafarer’ by Sally Beamish, scored for Trio and narrator, read by actor Oliver Beamish and incorporating stunning monoprints by Jila Peacock. Sally gave pre-concert talks and you can read more in our reviews section of the website.

ST GEORGES BRISTOL – SHOSTAKOVICH SERIES WITH JOAN RODGERS

Shostakovich Seven Romances on Verses of Alexander Blok

Fired up by the chance to take part in our Shostakovich series, the Rautio Piano Trio devised a very special programme that touched on key moments from the incredible history of Russia’s past. It saw the Trio, whose players are drawn from Britain, Israel and Russia, performing alongside one of Britain’s best loved singers, Joan Rodgers. A student of Russian before attending music college, Joan Rodgers has won worldwide acclaim for her interpretations of Russian repertoire and is something of a dream pairing for Shostakovich’s haunting settings of the Seven Romances.

At the heart of the Trio’s programme were two lamenting trios by Glinka and Shostakovich. Glinka was the first Russian composer of note, and a composer who set the Russian musical scene alight. His Trio Pathétique is a beautifully proportioned piece that echoes with Russian folk melodies, its score is marked with the very personal quotation “I have known love only through the unhappiness it causes”.

A century later, Shostakovich was continuing in the by now well established Russian musical tradition, but his journey was scarred by a multitude of uprisings and wars that produced an incredible outpouring of works, from the Leningrad Symphony to the Trio we hear tonight. His Second Trio, written in 1944, is a work of captivating yet morbid intensity, a lamentation both for his close friend Ivan Sollertinsky and the victims of the Holocaust.