Special guest, viola player Ella Brinch, will join violinist Ursula Nelius, cellist Paul Stender and pianist Chris Cartner who make up the Reservoir Trio in December to perform two legendary piano quartets. Mozart’s Piano Quartet no 1 in G minor, K 478, is considered to be the genesis of music for this combination, and is a…
Be spooked with The Reservoir Trio’s mid-winter programme which explores music inspired by both the earth and the world of the supernatural. Beethoven’s D major trio has acquired the nickname Ghost based on its “strangely scored and undeniably eerie-sounding slow movement”. Its outer movements are, however, completely typical of Beethoven’s ‘middle period’, and consist of music which…
Resonance Concert and Events presents the Reservoir Trio in their first programme of the 2014 season, which has as its centrepiece the Piano Trio No 1 in D minor by Mendelssohn alongside the music of Percy Grainger. The Reservoir Trio is Australia’s newest piano trio, comprising violinist Ursula Nelius, cellist Paul Stender and pianist…