The 20th Season of Selby & Friends opens with a return of two special guests who wowed audiences two years ago – violinist Alexandra Osborne and cellist Clancy Newman. This dynamic duo joins Kathryn Selby for a concert comprising works by Beethoven and Elena Kats-Chernin that pay tribute to long-ago popular tunes; Fanny Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio, and Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 99.

The concert opens with Elena Kats-Chernin’s Variations on Schubert Trauerwalzer, inspired by the 19th-century composer. Beethoven’s Variations on Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu is a cheeky late work harking back to an earlier musical theme. Piano trios by Fanny Mendelssohn and Schubert are wonderful works that have been requested numerous times by audience members. 

Concert Program:

Elena Kats-Chernin: Variation on Schubert Trauerwalzer (2009)

Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11 (1846-47)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu, Op. 121a (1824)

Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No.1 in B-flat major, Op. 99 D. 898 (1827)