Four for one

The four artistes from France will get together to perform a show that will have Brahms: Piano quartet Op. 60; Beethoven: Archduke trio; Schubert: Trio No. 1 Op. 99 at the festival which is in its fourth edition. Playing together since the last ten years,Mathilde Borsarello will join them on violin for this concert. Herrmann founded the trio con Fuoco in 1998 that has won numerous international prizes. “This is my fourth trip to the city and having played at the festival earlier too I have understood that its worth portraying our art here since people have a significant understanding of the western classical music. It is very difficult to find a fine instrument these days and I play a Benoit Fleury instrument of 1754,belonging to a private sponsor,” adds Herrmann who has studied chamber music under proficients like Paul Meyer,Eric Le Sage and Gabor Takacs

Borsarello started studying the violin from the age of five with her father. She also studied chamber music under Alain Meunier,Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Wanderer trio. Her violin is made by Ricardo Genovese and lent to her by a French foundation.

Parent who is the co founder of the trio con Fuoco,has performed in festivals all over Europe and perfected his art with great masters like Mstislav Rostropovich,György Kurtag,Boris Berezovsky and Dang Thai Son. “I am here for the first time and although the tonality of our music is very different from the Indian classical music I am sure people would accept it for the emotions it wraps besides being easy to hear. We are playing pieces from the nineteenth century and very traditional to the western music which I have been playing for the last 25 years,” says Herzog who is the violist of Quatuor Ebene a young quartet,considered amongst the finest in the world.

(The group will perform today at Mazda Hall,7 pm onwards)