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Gould Piano Trio shine a spotlight on a recently discovered piano trio by Leokadiya Kashp猫rova found in the Russian National Museum of Music in Moscow in 2019.

Kasperova was a leading student of Rubinstein's elite class at the St Petersburg Conservatoire first as a pianist and then as a composer but her work has been largely forgotten. The Russian musical gazette in 1912 remarked that 'Her gifts as a composer are a most welcome phenomenon of St Petersburg鈥檚 musical life' however following the unrest and revolution in 1917 she was forced to leave musical life in St Petersburg and went into hiding. In later life, she limited herself to piano recitals of music acceptable to the state, which did not include her own works. She was also the piano teacher of Igor Stravinsky.

Beethoven: Piano Trio in G major Op.1 No.2
Kashperova: Piano Trio in A minor

Gould Piano Trio

Presented by Donald Macleod
Produced by Lindsay Pell