Programme of the Symons-Elwood-Short Trio

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 20, 2 December 1927, Page 7

Programme of the Symons-Elwood-Short Trio

Trios by Beethoven, Gade, and Jadassoln, and a Double Sonata by Handel will be played this week. The first movement of the well-known Beethoven Trio in D Major is of a very rousing nature. A figure of mtense vitality is -immediately contraste. vith a melody of great sweetness at the opening. The popular "‘Noveletten" trio by Gade was recently played. This week another trio by this composer (1817-1890), the greatest of Danish musicians, is on the programme. An intimate friend of Mendelssohn and Schumann, he became in some sense their disciple. His work shows a refined sense of symmetry, harmomious colouring, and delicate senti-

ament. It is characterised by clear-cut thythm and frank melodiousness, The Trio in F by Jadassohn (18311902) has the same freedom from complexity as the Gade, and speaks its message in a popular tone. Both svorks possess a decided charm and make an immediate appeal through their tunefulness and sparkle. The Double Sonata by Handel is one of five written for two violins and piano. Mr. Ellwood. will play the second violin part on the ’cello. These works have the typical Handelian vitality and grandeur, and should attract many lovers of good music. Miss Ava Symons will play the lovefy slow movement from the Mendelssohn Concerto. It is a real song with-

‘out words, and has won its way into countless hearts by its pure melody. Mr, George Ellwood will play as ’cello solos the Sicilienne by the modern French composer, G. Faure, Its. melody is of great charm, and the accompaniment with its insistent upward flow impels it onward with a delightfully wistful grace. The middle section has a contrasting melody given for the p‘ano. Mr. Gordon Short’s numbers will be: an arrangement by Brahms of a charm-. ing Gavotte from an opera by Gluck.’ It is a melody of old-world charm, de- ‘ licately embellished by Brahms,. The "Intermezzo" from Brahms’s Jast piano-_ forte werk has a haunting rhythmic ilt.