Performance

Piano Trio in E-flat major, Hob. XV:35 "Jacob's Ladder"

1 upcoming performance in New York

Joseph Haydn’s Piano Trio in E-flat major, Hob. XV:35, known as “Jacob’s Ladder,” turns a simple rising figure into a set of musical steps, traded between piano, violin, and cello with wit and restraint. At Bargemusic in New York City, Mark Peskanov, Evan Drachman, and Doris Stevenson place the Classical-era conversation alongside Brahms, a reminder of how later Romantic chamber writing absorbed Haydn’s logic and balance. No specific NYC premiere history is firmly documented for this trio, but it belongs to a repertoire long central to the city’s concert life. One hears how Haydn makes architecture out of light material.