by Mike Telin

On Monday May 6 beginning at 7:30 pm in West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, The Rocky River Chamber Music Society presents their final concert of the season with a performance by Trio Nord. Sonja Molloy, violin, Lembi Veskimets, viola and Martha Baldwin, cello. The evening features Mozart’s Prelude and Fugue VI, K. 404a & Divertimento in E-flat, K. 563 & Penderecki’s String Trio (1990-91).

While many concertgoers are probably familiar with the robust repertoire composed for the string quartet, many may not be as familiar with the great repertoire written for the string trio, but these three Cleveland Orchestra colleagues hope to change that.

“Of course in the world of chamber music the string quartet gets the bulk of the repertoire but, there is a lot of great music written for string trio,” says violist Lembi Veskimets. Cellist Martha Baldwin agrees. “None of works on this program are pieces where you miss the fourth voice. There are string trios where you are aware that there are only three instruments, and you feel that they are texturally thin, but these pieces do not feel that way at all. They are complex and I think they elevate the string trio to being an equal to the string quartet.” [Read more…]