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Trio Taliesin's
Cosy Christmas Soirée

Join Trio Taliesin for an evening of chamber music that promises to leave you feeling joyful and festive.

The concert will open with Debussy's Piano Trio in G major. Written in 1880, when Debussy was just 18 years old, it was composed in Italy while he was working as pianist and piano teacher for Tchaikovsky's patroness, Nadezhda von Meck. The work is full of beautiful lyricism, warm harmonies and plenty of charm.

Next, to get you in the festive spirit, Trio Taliesin will perform a piano trio arrangement of four movements from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. Tchaikovsky composed the ballet in 1892, 12 years after Debussy had written his Piano Trio. Although the full staged version of the Nutcracker ballet was initially not as popular as the shorter concert suite, the ballet and its music has become some of Tchaikovsky's most famous work.

The concert will finish with some piano trio arrangements of a few festive carols and songs to send you home feeling warmed by an evening of musical cheer and happily humming your favourite tunes.

Trio Taliesin take their name from Celtic mythology: Taliesin was a renowned bard who entertained at the courts of the Brythonic kings. The trio formed in 2017 with the aim of engaging audiences in piano trio repertoire through collaborative performances and programming that link works with an underlying narrative. They have given concerts in London, Oxford, Sedbergh and Llanidloes, collaborated on performances with actress Holly Walters, and performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Cobweb Orchestra. 

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