Davidoff Trio‘s youth program contains four works, written when the composers were only around the age of 18. Combining these very different pieces in one program promises a concert experience of great intensity and represents a tribute to youth, to which the young Davidoff Trio cordially invites you.
 
Fifteen years lie between Schubert‘s first composition for piano trio ‚Sonatensatz‘ and his two big later written piano trios. And though on first sight it seems like only little of the late Schubert can be found in his early composition, one can already see Schubert‘s potential in some   of the details: the overall conception of the movement and a self-contained tonal language. 
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When the young composition student Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his first piano trio in 1923, at the age of just 17, when he was at the very beginning of his artistic development - yet the one-movement work already contains hints of the signature that would make Shostakovich one of the greatest composers of the 20th century: the use of a plaintive "leitmotif," an almost machine-like 1st theme, and an exceedingly elegiac 2nd theme.

Debussy's Piano Trio in G major, written by the then piano and composition student at the age of 18, is characterized by a completely different tonal language, but also by youthful exuberance. This trio, too, is already distinguished by a high level of compositional skill, but only rarely allows Debussy's later developing impressionist personal style to flash beneath the romantic sound picture.

In contrast, the Piano Trio op. 8 in B major by Johannes Brahms is considered his first and at the same time last piano trio. The version written in 1854 by the 20-year-old composer is available to us today in a version revised in 1889 by the composer himself, which in some places directs the youthful élan and expansive form of the composition into more sedate channels. The opening theme alone is certainly one of the most beautiful melodic ideas Brahms produced in his lifetime.