Performance

Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67

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Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 is Dmitri Shostakovich’s wartime trio, written in 1944 as public grief and private memorial, then shaped into four movements that move between lullaby-like stillness and brittle dance. It entered New York’s postwar concert life early, as the city’s émigré musicians and major halls made Soviet modernism part of the repertoire. At Groupmuse NYC it sits in a rock/pop-leaning set, played by an unnamed piano trio alongside Beethoven, where its clipped rhythms and stark harmonies read less like confession than testimony.