These three artists have known each other by reputation for many years, but their artistic association began in 2015 as a natural consequence of mutual long-distance esteem. Franco’s precision and rigour on the violin, combined with Sergio’s innate expressiveness and Elena’s musical balance, are the three main characteristics that make this trio complete. The first rehearsal of the Mezzena-Patria-Ballario Trio involved playing through Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2, a piece for which the three artists feel a particular passion and with which their interpretative affinity manifested itself immediately. Their concert activity has led them to performances of the standard trio repertoire, including recordings of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, but also rare performances and recordings of music such as the trios by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Alberic Magnard.
While Franz Schubert worked on his noble, monumental song-cycle, Winterreise, he also