Mirrors: 21st Century American Piano Trios (2020)

The Lysander Piano Trio rightly stresses the diversity of this survey of the 21st century American piano trio, with styles and influences coming from rock (in Gilad Cohen's Around the Cauldron), extended technique (in Jennifer Higdon's voice-and-trio song cycle Love Sweet), and minimalism (in Jakub Ciupinski's The Black Mirror). The group effectively shifts gears among a variety of sounds, which is often the key to a successful program of contemporary music. However, for all the diversity, there's an interesting unity among ... Read More

The Lysander Piano Trio rightly stresses the diversity of this survey of the 21st century American piano trio, with styles and influences coming from rock (in Gilad Cohen's Around the Cauldron), extended technique (in Jennifer Higdon's voice-and-trio song cycle Love Sweet), and minimalism (in Jakub Ciupinski's The Black Mirror). The group effectively shifts gears among a variety of sounds, which is often the key to a successful program of contemporary music. However, for all the diversity, there's an interesting unity among these works, one that is underappreciated as a pervasive factor since the fall of modernism: the pieces all refer to extramusical scenes and images. Cohen's Around the Cauldron, as one might expect, depicts the Witches of Shakespeare's Macbeth in a series of delightful short scenes, including one from the perspective of the unfortunate newts (and there is another little Shakespeare scene, "Titania and Her Suite," from Sofia Belimova ). Reinaldo Moya's four Ghostwritten... Read Less

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