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Fiona Talkington presents Trio Wanderer playing Copland, Suk and Shostakovich as part of the Shostakovich Plus series at LSO St Luke's.

In the third instalment of this series which partners chamber works by Shostakovich with music by other composers, Trio Wanderer have chosen music by Aaron Copland and Josef Suk. Copland's Vitebsk is "a study on a Jewish theme" and indeed the last movement of Shostakovich's second Piano Trio, which closes the programme is also based on Jewish melodies. Shostakovich wrote this work as a memorial to a friend - the music critic Ivan Sollertinsky - which links it to Elegie - a tribute from Suk to the writer Julius Zeyer.

Copland: Vitebsk
Suk: Elegie
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 2 in E Minor, Op 67

Trio Wanderer

Photo: (c) Francois Sechet.