Dvořák’s Piano Trio no.4 ‘Dumky’ is a piece that’s been with me for years, but I always avoided playing it until recently. It’s always stood out to me as a watershed in Dvořák’s output: my favourite work of his used to be the op.65 Piano Trio, with its incredible complexity, rich modulations, daring harmonies and echoes of Brahms. Then suddenly in 1891 he wrote ‘Dumky’, a piece that’s so minimalist and harmonically reduced that it feels like the purest music ever written. Many people have told me they don’t get it because it’s so simple; I say the miracle is its simplicity.