Schumann
Biguzzi, Perucchetti, Chimini

Stefano Biguzzi, violin

Paolo Perucchetti, cello

Gerardo Chimini, piano

R. Schumann (1810-1856)

Trio for violin, cello and piano No. 2 in F major, Op. 80

30’ | Admission with museum ticket

In the Galleria degli Specchi of Palazzo Ducale, Robert Schumann’s Trio No. 2 in F major, Op. 80 resounds. Composed in Dresden in 1847, it is one of the most representative works of nineteenth-century chamber music, and it bears the marks of an intensely productive yet deeply painful year: one marked by the death of his sixteen-month-old son Emil, and by the sudden passing of Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny.

Unlike the first Trio, characterised by restlessness and passionate lyricism, this one is more buoyant and luminous, tempered by a contrapuntal writing that Schumann was increasingly exploring. Violin, cello and piano move in a dense and refined dialogue, in which each voice has equal importance and nothing is left to chance.

A work that alternates moments of melodic warmth with bursts of vigorous energy, revealing the full complexity of a composer who never ceased to search for new forms in order to express something authentic.

Text by Giada De Sio