- July 20, 2025 - 3:00 PM
- Gordon Hall, Music Mountain
Reverón Piano Trio & Oskar Espina Ruiz, Clarinet
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Major, Opus 70, "Ghost"
Gabriela LENA FRANK Hilos (Threads) for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Johannes BRAHMS Piano Trio in B Major, Opus 8
"Musicians like the Reverón Trio are an inspiration for any composer; after listening to you play, one feels an urgent desire to write more music!"
— Miguel del Águila, Grammy-nominated and award winning composer
On July 20, the Reverón Piano Trio and Music Mountain artistic director Oskar Espina Ruiz, clarinet perform Gabriela Lena Frank’s Hilos (Threads) for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, a master work that celebrates the beauty of Peruvian textiles, both in their construction and in their pictorial content of everyday life. Players are mixed and matched in various combinations, and draw on a myriad of sounds evocative of indigenous music to create a one-of-a-kind Peruvian "Pictures at an Exhibition."
The program opens with Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D Major, Opus 70, “Ghost,” reminiscent of the ghost scene at the opening of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and concludes with the Piano Trio in B Major, Opus 8 of a young Brahms, written when the composer was 21 years old, and revised thirty-five years later. “I have rewritten my B Major Trio and can now call it Opus 108 instead of Opus 8,” Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann.