PROGRAMME

Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Piano Trio No. 39 in G Major “Gypsy”
I Andante
II Poco adagio, cantabile
III Rondo all’Ongarese: Presto

Mihkel Kerem (*1981)
“4 tantsu ja epiloog” aka “Viis meeleseisundit”

Pjotr Tšaikovski (1840–1893)
Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50
I Pezzo elegiaco (Moderato assai - Allegro giusto)
II Tema con Variazioni: Andante con moto, Variazione finale e coda

“Dear Papa and Mama
I kiss your hands with all my heart, my Angels, and I do not even know how to convey how I love you. The day before yesterday, Aunt Liza came to see us, that is, she saw just Nikolay because I was already at the School of Jurisprudence. She greets you with all her heart and kisses you a thousand times. Truly, I have nothing to write to you about today — except that I love you and adore you. I was recently playing the piano at the school. I began to play "The Nightingale", and suddenly I remembered how I used to play this piece in the past. A terrible sadness came over me: now I recalled how I would play it in Alapayevsk in the evenings with you listening, now I recalled how I played it four years ago in Saint Petersburg with my teacher, Mr Filippov, now I recalled how you would sing this piece together with me — in short, I remembered that this was always your favourite piece. But very soon a ray of hope began to shine again in my soul: I believe : some day, or some night, you will come again, and I shall again be in my parental home. I kiss your hands as many times as there are drops of water in the sea. 
I ask for your blessing.
Your son
Pyotr Tchaikovsky”
(Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to his parents, January 1852)

PERFORMERS

violinists Anna-Liisa Bezrodny and Ivi Ots

cellist Theodor Sink

pianist Irina Zahharenkova