Alasdair Beatson, Sini Simonen, David Waterman

The inspired Finnish violinist, Sini Simonen and captivatingly imaginative Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson join our Artistic Director, David Waterman, for forty-two years cellist of the Endellion Quartet, in a programme centring around Schubert’s Trio in E flat, one of his great mature masterworks.

If the Trout is Schubert’s most joyous piece, this trio is one of his most tragic and moving. The extremely evocative slow movement, which was inspired by a Swedish folk-song , “The Sun has Set”, and has been used in many a film score , was first performed on the anniversary of the death of Beethoven, revered by Schubert.

Beethoven’s own early piano trio, full of life, energy and sheer happiness, was part of a set of three in what must be the most distinguished, immortal Opus 1’s ever issued by a composer. The concert opens with a violin and piano Sonatina by the great Jean Sibelius, the most wonderfully expressive composer from Sini Simonen’s native land.