Trio Lirico - Treasures - String Trios - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

... with a keen appreciation for suspense and patient development, (McCarthy) tests the boundaries and borders of shadows and shape with stunning results. - All About Jazz. Harkening back to the era of classic Gary Burton recordings such as InchDreams So RealInch and InchPassengers,Inch vibist Dan McCarthy pays tribute to Burton and Carla Bley, another towering influence on his musical development, for his second Origin . Recently returning to Toronto after 15 years in New York City, McCarthy teams with highly regarded Toronto-based improvisors, guitarist Ted Quinlan, Pat Collins on bass, and drummer Ted Warren, to present six new originals inspired by Burton and Bley, as well as compositions from Pat Metheny, InchMidwestern Nights Dream,Inch and Keith Jarrett's InchCoral.Inch InchAn extraordinary musical ability and a boundless imaginationInch - Gary Burton.

The Trio Lirico has programmed three composers who lived and worked on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain until 1989 for Franziska Pietsch and Sophia Reuter this is music which - paraphrasing Goethe - they Inchsearch with their soulsInch. InchAs children, we both lived in East Berlin and were close friends alreadyInch, Franziska Pietsch explains about her violist colleague. InchWe therefore share personal history, a similar style of playing and a similar non-verbal way of communicating about this music. We just feel it.Inch This personal form of perception, into which the Bremen cellist Johannes Krebs blends empathetically, is not irrelevant for this music which becomes accessible not just via the text but also to a high degree via the cultural and political environment in which it was written. Of course Krzysztof Penderecki (b.1933), following the political liberalization of Polish music from 1956, had the opportunity to tie in with avant-garde developments in the West and to create his very own and unique modernism. On the other hand, his generational colleague Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) and the older Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) had, until the end of the Soviet Union, to assert their music in the face of massive harassment from the authorities which, in Weinberg's case, went as far as being arrested for anti-Semitic reasons. Born in Warsaw, Weinberg, who fled to the Soviet Union during the Second World War, kept in close contact with his friend and mentor Dmitri Shostakovich. Nonetheless, Weinberg's music is entirely unique, and his string trio of 1950 strikes a balance between popular tunes and references to Yiddish music. Alfred Schnittke, who found it hard gaining acceptance on account of his (Volga) German and Jewish heritage, composed his trio in 1985 for the birthday of his illustrious colleague Alban Berg - and, shortly after completing the work, suf

Various Artists - Best of Opera 5 / Various [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/14/2000