Name: Rothschild’s Violin by Anton Chekov
Start: 2024-07-27T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-07-27T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Paxton House, TD15 1SZ Berwick on Tweed, United Kingdom

$Rothschild\u2019s Violin by Anton Chekov$

Gerda Stevenson narrator
Mithras Trio:
Ionel Manciu violin
Leo Popplewell cello
Dominic Degavino piano
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, Op. 67
Chekov: Rothschild’s Violin, from ‘Novellas and Stories’
“A thrilling dash and vigour, heightened by vivacious dialogue between the instruments” theartsdesk.com on the Mithras Trio
Yakov Ivanov, an ill-tempered village coffin-maker and violinist, has always hated the local orchestra’s popular Jewish flautist, Rothschild. When Yakov becomes sick after his long-suffering wife dies, he experiences an epiphany that leads to an extraordinary act of generosity that astonishes everyone who knows him. Shostakovich began work on his klezmer/Jewish-inspired 2nd Piano Trio just ten days after completing the orchestration of ‘Rothschild’s Violin’, an opera by his pupil Veniamin Fleishman who died at the Siege of Leningrad. For this performance, the movements and the story alternate.
£16 (conc £12)

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Paxton House, TD15 1SZ Berwick on Tweed, United Kingdom, Paxton House, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1, United Kingdom,Berwick, Fife, United Kingdom, Berwick Upon Tweed

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