Trio con Brio Copenhagen plays Beethoven en Tsjaikovski

Trio con Brio Copenhagen

Trio con Brio Copenhagen has been applauded as a worthy successor to the legendary Beaux Arts Trio. The musicians themselves have now been on their way for a quarter of a century, last year they celebrated their anniversary. Two South Korean sisters, Soo-Jin Hong (violin) and Soo-Kyung Hong (cello), and the Dane Jens Elvekjaer (piano): that is Trio con Brio Copenhagen. The three musicians once met at the conservatory in Vienna and are based as a trio in Copenhagen. In addition to their international concert practice, they teach. Music for children is close to their hearts. Today they have works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Lili Boulanger with them.

Beethoven and Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky admired Beethoven, but was troubled by what George Bernard Shaw called Beethoven's defining characteristic: his unsettling quality. In the Ghost Trio, written during his heroic middle period, Beethoven had completed the emancipation of the strings. Yet Tchaikovsky felt that the strings in a piano trio were no match for "the king of instruments." His benefactor Nadezhda von Meck was pleasantly surprised in 1882 when Tchaikovsky's only piano trio turned out to be one of his best works.