Composer: Béla Bartók, Şerban Nichifor, Francis Poulenc, Paul Schoenfield
Performer: Reto Bieri, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Polina Leschenko
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA772
Release: 2024
Size: 2.16 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Poulenc: L’invitation au château, FP. 138
01. IV. Mouvement de valse-hésitation
Schoenfield: Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano
02. I. Freylakh
03. II. March
04. III. Nigun
05. IV. Kozatske
Poulenc: L’Invitation au Chateau
06. VIII. Tempo di Boston
07. Poulenc: Bagatelle in D minor
Poulenc: L’invitation au château, FP. 138
08. XVI. Follement vite et gai
Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 184
09. I. Allegro tristamente
10. II. Romanza
11. III. Allegro con fuoco
Poulenc: L’Invitation au Chateau
12. XIII. Tempo di Tarantella
Bartók: Two Burlesques, Op. 8c, Sz. 47, BB55
13. No. 2
Poulenc: L’invitation au château, FP. 138
14. XII. Très vite et très canaille
Bartók: Contrasts for violin, clarinet & piano, BB 116, Sz. 111
15. I. Verbunkos
16. II. Pihenö
17. III. Sebes
Poulenc: L’invitation au château, FP. 138
18. XI. Tango
19. Nichifor: Klezmer Dance
The basic idea of this album was to play in threes… Not to play ‘something’, but to experiment ‘in threes’ with sound worlds as different as those of Bartok, Poulenc and Schoenfield. With his Contrastes, composed in 1938 for Benny Goodman, Bartok broadened his penchant for traditional music and turned it into a more universal work, influenced by jazz. Poulenc was a child of the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, influenced as much by Stravinsky, Ravel and Satie as by cabaret songs and operetta. Paul Schoenfield, born in Detroit in 1947, also likes to combine styles. Each of the movements in his trio is based on an Eastern European Hasidic melody…not forgetting the breathtaking klezmer dances of Romanian Serban Nichifor.Almost ten years afterTake 2(Alpha211), Patricia Kopatchinskaja reunites with two great accomplices, clarinettist Reto Bieri and pianist Polina Leschenko, for a programme based around trios that celebrate the roots of these three musicians.