Performed by NZTrio at their concert, 'Dramatic Skies: Cumulus', Auckland Concert Chamber, 16 November 2021.
NZTrio - Somi Kim, Ashley Brown, Amalia Hall Photo: Jen Raoult
This meditative little movement is all that Grieg ever wrote for piano trio. Perhaps he was going to add to it to create a full work but it never happened. And it sat undiscovered for a hundred years or so. After writing it he put it away. It was found in his papers after he died by his friend Julius Röntgen who wrote to Grieg’s widow:
"It is a beautiful piece ... What solemnity it conveys! He can't get enough of that single theme, that ... develops its full power so beautifully... The piece can very well stand by itself and does not at all give the impression of being a fragment, as it constitutes a perfect entity in itself."
But then Röntgen inexplicably put it away again and it didn’t come to light until 1978.
Recorded by RNZ Concert, Auckland Concert Chamber, 16 November 2021
Producer: Tim Dodd; Engineer: Adrian Hollay
