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The Kaha Trio brings us the Winter Wanderer -  a journey through two piano trios from Felix Mendelssohn and Joseph Haydn.  Haydn’s Trio in G major, is also nicknamed the ‘Gypsy’ trio . As a lover of folk music, Haydn incorporated the tunes from the Verbunko dances performed by Austrian soldiers which can be especially heard in the rondo movement of this work.  Felix Mendelssohn wrote his second Piano Trio in 1845, in the final years of his life, by which time he had developed a rich harmonic language.  Throughout , one can hear reflections of his Songs Without Words and also his Midsummers Nights Dream while the finale introduces a Lutheran Chorale tune. The piece races to the finish line in a fortissimo final cadence worthy of a concerto.