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 Bartók, Poulenc and Schoenfield. With his Contrastes , composed in 1938 for Benny Goodman, Bartók 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 ?erban Nichifor. Almost ten years after Take 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.
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Reviews
“…This disc, a must at least for all fans of Kopatchinskaja and company, provides plenty of entertainment…”
Leslie Wright – Musicwebinternational.com – 17 March 2024
***** Coup de cœur
Gérard Belvire – Classica magazine (France) – April 2024
“… This disc is provocative, it’s flamboyant – but it’s never, ever, dull.”
Richard Bratby – Gramophone magazine – March 2024
Recording of the Month
Performance ***** Recording *****
"... All in all, chamber music at its most vivaciously invigorating and life-enhancing. Cue a party! ..."
Paul Riley – BBC Music magazine – February 2024
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