Australian 21st Century Chamber Music and More with the Eggner Piano Trio, by Andrew Miller
Eggner Piano Trio
City Recital Hall, Angel Place: 18 April 2011
organized by Musica Viva
Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio in C, Hob.XV:27
Ian Munro
Tales of Old Russia
Vassilisa and the Baba Yaga
The Snow Maiden
Death and the Soldier
Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Trio No. 2 in e minor, opus 92
The Eggner Trio:
Christoph Eggner - piano
Georg Eggner - violin
Florian Eggner - cello
For their Australian tour, the brothers Eggner's trio has chosen a quite diverse group of pieces. Their manner of playing unites them so that it doesn't seem so important that one piece is Australian, another Austrian and another French, but that each is trying to express something in its own unique way. Likewise the Eggner Trio "contains multitudes," each brother having quite a different style, manner and approach to the music. I believe the fact that they're brothers contributes to their success as a chamber group — as a piano trio in particular, in whose peculiarities they seem to rejoice — in the way such different personalities, united only by underlying genetics, can coexist and cooperate in unpredictable ways.

