Proms Chamber Music 8: Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio

The Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio, live at the BBC Proms, play piano trios by Arlene Sierra and Brahms.

Live from the Cadogan Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
Arlene Sierra: Butterflies Remember a Mountain

Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio

When not performing as a soloist, violinist Nicola Benedetti appears frequently as a chamber musician
- most often with the trio she co-founded with pianist Alexei Grynyuk and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich. Here the three musicians pair Brahms's first and stormiest piano trio - its darkness belying the work's major key - with music by American-born composer Arlene Sierra. Inspired by the migration patterns of butterflies, her Butterflies Remember a Mountain is a work of pointillist detail and shimmering harmonies, painted in a sequence of delicate textural gestures.

This prom will be repeated on Sunday 13th September at 1pm.