Astatine Trio

The award-winning Astatine Trio, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists for 2025-27 and formerly mentored by the legendary pianist Alfred Brendel, perform a programme of late Schubert and Takemitsu. The trio’s accolades include second prize and the special prize for best performance of the prizewinning work of the composition competition at the 2025 Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition in Graz – becoming the first UK-based ensemble to win a main prize in the competition’s history. 

Written in the last year of his life and considered one of the pinnacles of the chamber music repertoire, Schubert’s radiant E flat major Trio is a vast and sweeping masterpiece which takes the listener on an engrossing journey through darkness and towards light. This is preceded by Takemitsu’s colourful and meditative Between Tides, inspired by the constant and mesmerising motion of the sea’s tides and filled with evocative water imagery. 

Toru Takemitsu Between Tides  

Schubert Piano Trio No.2 in E flat major D929 

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists

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