Saturday 7th February 2009

7.45 pm
at the Middleton Hall, University of Hull

Gould Piano Trio
Lucy Gould, violin; Alice Neary, cello; Benjamin Frith, piano with Robert Plane,clarinet

Schumann	Fantasiestucke op73
Mendelssohn	Piano Trio in D minor op 49
Messiaen	Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time)

Shortlisted by the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2006 as one of the three most outstanding UK chamber groups, the Gould Piano Trio has a flourishing career and an enviable international reputation. Together with the superb clarinettist Robert Plane, they mark the centenary of Messiaen's birth (in December 1908) with a performance of the extraordinary work he wrote in a prisoner-of-war camp in 1941 (and first performed there with three fellow prisoners). Their new CD of this work is due in summer 2008.

The Gould Piano Trio have proved themselves to be master dramatists... Frith's near-orchestral control of dynamics made this an uncommonly powerful and disturbing experience' (Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2)
The Times