Pianist Joan Miquel Fiol and the Hèlix Trio gave a chamber music concert this Thursday in the auditorium of the Olot Municipal School of Music. Fiol performed Preludes, Opus 28 (selection) by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) and premiered Abyssus sine by composer Javier Quislant (b. 1984), a piece he has been rehearsing at Faberllull these days.

The Hèlix Trio performed Piano Trio in C minor no. 3, Opus 101 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). They also performed Silens fluctus by Javier Quislant (b. 1984) which they had been rehearsing all week and premiered this evening in Olot.

The concert ended with a discussion between the performers and the audience present in the auditorium.

Initially conceived as an improvised introduction to a work, a prelude is one of the few genres present in the history of music since the fifteenth century. Its essential features, i.e., free form and rhapsodic writing, have remained unaltered and been associated with autonomous pieces, independent of one another, since the nineteenth century. Chopin wrote his Preludes Opus 28 between 1836 and 1839, partially coinciding with the time he spent on the island of Mallorca. The collection consists of 24 works of different characteristics written across all major and minor keys. When Brahms composed Piano Trio in C minor no. 3, Opus 101 in 1886 he was an experienced composer and in a state of grace. In the work he presents the technique of thematic variation on a large scale. The entire work, an intense and beautiful score, derives from the motif of the three ascending notes that it presents on piano in the deep register at the start.