Göteborgs Konserthus Passion with Trio Poseidon

Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer lets rhythms and aggressions flow in Predatory Dance. The title was born from the emerging music and the predator-like, which partly attacks but also sneaks and charges before the leap. Cecile Chaminade lived in a completely different world, in a completely different place, 100 years earlier. She too composed with great passion in the face of staunch resistance from society. Or was she perhaps forced to draw on her passion to endure all that opposition, and is it this we hear in her work today?

Brahms composed his Piano Trio No.2 during a time when he had stopped touring as a concert pianist and became more sought after as a conductor instead. Brahms is infamous for his ruthless self-censorship. He purged his work countless times, leaving only the very best for posterity. Trio Poseidon, which has just turned twenty, has performed Brahms multiple times.