Composer: Christian Wolff
Performer: Trio Accanto
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Wergo
Catalogue: WER74002
Release: 2021
Size: 195 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Trio IX – accanto
01. Pt. I
02. Pt. II
03. Exercise 32
04. Exercise 37
05. Exercise 29
06. Exercise 30
07. Exercise 31
08. Exercise 37
09. Exercise 38
The American composer Christian Wolff (b. 1934) is the last living representative of the New York School (Rauschenberg, Rothko, etc.). Wolff was not even an adult when he studied with Grete Sultan and John Cage. Wolff’s music was much more politically motivated than that of Feldman and Cage, which is evident on this new WERGO album by Trio Accanto. The album features first recordings made in close collaboration with Wolff in the studios of Deutschlandfunk Cologne/Germany. Wolff’s great “Trio IX – Accanto” (2017) is a testament to his long-standing friendship with the musicians. Peculiarly serene and unobtrusively narrative, the piece features many reminiscences and hidden quotations from music by J. S. Bach to union songs. There are also tributes to Wolff’s own “Exercises”, whose more recent numbers can be heard on the album as well.