Trio Anima Mundi 2025 Series - Melbourne

Trio Anima Mundi returns to Geelong in 2025 with their 3-concert series - Trio Fantasies. Continuing their acclaimed Piano Trio Archaeology, the three concerts are united by rare presentations of fantasies by Bridge, Krenek, Verne-Bredt as well as the beautiful Fantasy Pieces by Robert Schumann.

Concert 1 - A Composer's Life - Sunday 2nd March @ 2.30pm

Gabriel FAURE - Piano Trio in D minor, Op.120

Frank BRIDGE - Phantasie Trio in C minor

Maurice RAVEL - Piano Trio, M.67

The first concert features three works written at different stages of each composer's career. WIth the Phantasie Trio, Frank Bridge established himself as one of the leading English composers of the younger generation. By the time of the Piano Trio in A minor, Maurice Ravel - whose sesquicentenary of birth we celebrate in 2025 - had an ever-increasing catalogue of compositions to his credit, including an opera and ballet music. The PIano Trio in D minor was written in the year before Gabriel Faure's death. His career had been formidable, including a stint as director of the Paris Conservatoire.

Concert 2 - The Schumann Connection - Sunday 22nd June @ 2.30pm

Alice VERNE-BREDT - Phantasie

Robert SCHUMANN - Fantasiestucke in A minor, Op.88

Felix MENDELSSOHN - Piano Trio No.1, Op.49, in D minor

Concert 2 presents works by Schumann and Mendelssohn, who shared a close personal and profesisonal friendship. They showed mutual admiration and support for each other's works throughout their careers. Added to this program is a rare outing for the Phantasie by English composer Alice Verne-Bredt. Her sisters Mathilde and Mary were piano students of Schumann's wife, Clara, and Alice herself (as well as another sister Adela) was taught by the Schumanns' daughter Marie.

Concert 3 - From Vienna With Love - Sunday 12th October @ 2.30pm

Ernst KRENEK - Triophantasie, Op.63

Franz SCHUBERT - Piano Trio No.2 in E-flat Major, Op.100

The final concert in the 2025 TAM Series - Trio Fantasies - has at its core one of Franz Schubert's last compositions, the Piano Trio No.2. Like his other trio (No.1) this work is grand in composition and structure. First performed in early 1828, the work was published later that year, just before the composer's death. The Trio Fantasy by Ernst Krenek was written at a transitional point in Krenek's musical language. Written after the successful 'jazz opera' Jonny spielt auf, and before his move to the strictures of 12-tone serialism, the Triophantasie finds Krenek in a neo-Romantic, Schubertian guise.