Programme

W.A. Mozart (1756 – 1791)                   Divertimento no. 1 KV229                                                               

J. Ibert (1890 – 1962)                            5 Pieces for Trio                                                               

H. Tomasi (1901 – 1971)                      Concert Champêtre                                                               

E. Ghezzi (b. 1955)                               Divertimento in Eb Major                                                              

Trio Colette emerged from an instrumental combination of varied colour particularly linked to the Parisian musical artistic world of the beginning of the twentieth century. The main objective of the Trio is to rediscover a little-known repertoire, recreating through sounds, those textures, scents, atmospheres and chromatic nuances typical of the early twentieth century in France, a period particularly full of significant turning points involving not only the musical world but the entire artistic environment, from the pictorial to the literary one.

This is an artistic current that in a certain sense wants to free itself from the rigour and rigid stylistic features of past romantic music, evolving not only in the direction of contemporary innovations, but enriching the seriousness of so-called cultured music through the liveliness, authenticity and purity of musical themes of popular derivation, with particular reference to ancient dances prevalent in Renaissance France (tambourine, gavotte, minuet, bourée), which later developed into what is known as the Baroque Suite. From ancient French dances, revisited according to impressionist taste, the programme traces this genealogy, finally arriving at the cheerful and exquisite freshness of a piece in neoclassical style by a living Milanese composer, Enrico Ghezzi.