This is a big week for Trio Vitruvi. The Copenhagen-based ensemble will make its Carnegie Hall debut, in Weill Recital Hall, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. The program will include piano trios by Schubert, Shostakovich, and Dvořák.
Then on Friday, Vitruvi’s first album, of Schubert chamber music, will be released on Bridge Records, Inc. The recording features a performance of the rarely-heard Bärenreiter Urtext edition of Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, D. 929, which contains extra music not included in previous editions.
Join me this afternoon at 4:00 EDT on The Classical Network, as we sample from this impending release; then learn more about the prize-winning trio and its Carnegie appearance through a conversation with Vitruvi pianist Alexander McKenzie. McKenzie, who began his piano studies at the age of six, attended the Danish Academy of Music. He is also one half (with Vitruvi’s Niklas Walentin) of the violin-piano duo Walentin & McKenzie.
Following our interview, I’ll mark the birthday anniversaries of Leó Weiner (we’ll enjoy his “Hungarian Folk Dance Suite”), Federico Mompou (the “Variations on a Theme by Chopin”), and Henry Mancini (a selection of music from the Pink Panther films).
All told, we’ll be in the pink, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

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