Schubert, Kurtág
String Trio Eszká

String Trio Eszká

Nurit Stark, violin

Yuko Hara, viola

Sebastian Triebener, cello

F. Schubert (1797–1828)

String Trio No. 1 in B-flat major, D 471

G. Kurtág (1926)

Signs, Games and Messages

30’ | Ticket €8

In the Rotonda di San Lorenzo, one of Mantua’s oldest spaces, Romanesque architecture frames a program that explores the allure of the fragment and the unfinished. Bringing these threads together is an exceptional ensemble—forming here for the first time live at Trame Sonore—the String Trio Eszká.

Schubert’s String Trio No. 1 in B-flat major, composed in September 1816, has come down to us in a single movement. Schubert abandoned it and never returned, leaving it suspended like an unanswered question. And yet, within that suspension is already everything: Mozartian grace, unmistakable lyricism, and a sense of something that might continue without end.

Kurtág’s Signs, Games and Messages arises from a similar fragmentary logic: a collection of deeply personal miniatures—musical letters, tributes, and games—each a world in itself, each capable of expressing the maximum with the minimum. Ancient and contemporary mirror one another in this millennia-old space where time contracts: Schubert and Kurtág seem to inhabit the same instant.

Text by Giada De Sio