Trio Xenakis - Shostakovich & Escaich: Vitrail (Live) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Trio Metral, in it's new lineup of Victor Metral (piano), Nathan Mierdl (violin) and Laure-Hélène Michel (cello) - three born chamber musicians - offers us a passionate and exciting reading of two masterpieces of the French repertory. The group has won prizes at numerous international competitions, and in 2017 was awarded First Prize at the Joseph Haydn International Competition in Vienna, in addition to the Audience Prize and the prize for the best interpretation of Haydn trios. Following this success, the Trio Metral was invited to perform at the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein in 2017 and at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2018.

Satie / Trio Satie - L'heure Satie [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/15/2018

Named after the German poet Christian Morgenstern, the Franco-German InchMorgenstern TrioInch has selected a InchtriadInch of Franco-Belgian composers for their new CD, centered around Ravel's Piano Trio in A Minor (1914). Violinist, pianist and teacher Kolja Lessing, a friend of the trio, drew their attention to the two relatively unknown works by Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) and Jacqueline Fontyn (born in 1930). For the three trio members, the main point of interest lay not so much in certain traits of style or character these three Franco-Belgian works might eventually share, nor in the fact that two of the composers are women. Instead, their goal was to explore aspects of historical context and mutual influence among composers. InchRavel wrote his trio in 1914, and Tailleferre the first version of her trio two years later. We thought it would be particularly worthwhile to find out how two French-speaking composers, both known to be admirers of Ravel, wrote in this genre.