Morning Melodies - Love and Loss

An intimate journey exploring devotion, memory, and the intersection between joy and sorrow.

Edvard Grieg’s Andante con moto begins the concert: a deep, solemn movement, the sole fragment of an unfinished trio, it is an intense meditation on loss and profound melancholy. Sorrow gives way to the breathless excitement of courtship and tantalising romance of Claire Cowan’s Subtle Dances, before Robert Schumann finishes with brilliant, joyful devotion in Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major. Written shortly after his long-awaited marriage to Clara, this sunlit masterpiece is filled with the effusive affection of a besotted husband, a beautiful “luminous image” of love realised.

LOVE AND LOSS
Edvard Grieg | Andante con moto
Claire Cowan | Subtle Dances
Robert Schumann | Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major