Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67

Shostakovich’s *Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67* is a wartime chamber work, written in 1944 and shaped by private grief and public terror. Its four movements move from stark lyricism to a folk-inflected dance that turns acidic, then into a passacaglia that keeps returning like a fixed idea. In New York, where Shostakovich’s music has long carried political and émigré resonance, the trio reads as testimony rather than display. At Groupmuse NYC, it’s heard in a live rock/pop context, with performers including an unnamed piano trio.