Schubert
Rizzi, Gnocchi, Lucchesini

Marco Rizzi, violin

Giovanni Gnocchi, cello

Andrea Lucchesini, piano

F. Schubert (1797–1828)

Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, op. 100

45’ | Admission €12

In February 1828, only a few days after completing the Trio in E-flat major featured in today’s programme, Schubert wrote to a friend: “I have come into the world with new music.” He would die ten months later, at the age of thirty-one, leaving in this work one of the highest syntheses of his late musical language, at once lyrical and profound. The Trio was among the last of his works to be heard in public, and belongs to that final group of compositions in which the music already seems to inhabit another dimension of time, suspended between confession and farewell.

Performing it are three musicians of solid and internationally recognised chamber music experience: Marco Rizzi, among the most authoritative violinists of his generation; Giovanni Gnocchi, an interpreter of deep timbral sensitivity; and Andrea Lucchesini, an artist who has made Schubert one of the most authentic centres of his musical journey.

The Trio in E-flat major thus reveals itself in its most complex and human nature: dance and farewell, light and shadow, vital impulse and awareness of limitation. A work that seems to contain, at once, the world and its dissolution: a true testament of this extraordinary composer.

Text curated by Federica Mastantuono