Pangaea Trio Berlin with works by Shostakovich, Ravel and Brahms

The Pangaea Trio Berlin takes its name from the supercontinent where all the earth’s continents were once joined – a fitting symbol of the international and multicultural backgrounds of its members. The programme for this concert is just as diverse: Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich was only 16 years old and experiencing his first love when he composed his tender and dreamy Piano Trio No. 1. In Maurice Ravel’s Piano Trio, French elegance meets pulsating Basque rhythms. Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quintet, finally, is a classic of late German Romanticism – dark, contemplative, and dramatic.