The multinational piano trio of violinist Joel Pitchon, cellist Marie-Volci Pelletier, and pianist Yu-Mei Wei here announces its intention to find "pieces for piano trio that somehow spoke with an American, and even more narrowly, a New England voice." They actually go even further: all of the present composers were associated with Harvard University, and the program is unusually cohesive. It's also entertaining, with all of the trios mixing sprightly outer movements with lyricism in the slow movements that one can argue is ...
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The multinational piano trio of violinist Joel Pitchon, cellist Marie-Volci Pelletier, and pianist Yu-Mei Wei here announces its intention to find "pieces for piano trio that somehow spoke with an American, and even more narrowly, a New England voice." They actually go even further: all of the present composers were associated with Harvard University, and the program is unusually cohesive. It's also entertaining, with all of the trios mixing sprightly outer movements with lyricism in the slow movements that one can argue is peculiarly American. The work that may catch the buyer's eye is the Trio for violin, cello, and piano of Leonard Bernstein, written in 1937 while he was a student of Walter Piston at Harvard. It's a youthful and slightly overambitious piece, but there are many traces of the later superstar, including a scherzo that marked one of the first incursions of jazz into Harvard's august halls. Piston is represented by two trios, from 30 years apart; the second is rhythmically more...
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