Hellen Weiß / Zheng Wenxiao / Gabriel Schwabe

It is and remains a musical mystery: Schubert’s String Trio D 471, a fascinating fragment of a work which, although it remained unfinished, provides a deep insight into the composer’s melodic inventiveness and harmonic sensibility. Only the first movement is complete. The Andante sostenuto, which has only survived in fragmentary form and is rarely heard, although only 39 bars long, gives an idea of the further musical ideas Franz Schubert harboured for this trio. In the middle of the programme are two works for violin and violoncello that were written around 100 years apart: Maurice Ravel’s colourful sonata »A la mémoire de Claude Debussy« and the world premiere of a new work by David Philip Hefti, which was written especially for Hellen Weiß and Gabriel Schwabe. The programme concludes with Ernst von Dohnányi’s humorous and virtuoso Serenade for string trio, a major work in this genre.