the shipping wiki has introduced me to something named... piano trio? The ship between Monika DDLC, Mari OMORI and Kaede Akamatsu Danganronpa
I haven't even played Danganronpa, but I love them??? Why??? Why do I love them??? I just want them all to play piano together and be happy despite them all being doomed by their narratives
Arensky - Piano Trio no.1 in d minor, op.32 (1894)
Updating an old post on this piece
Arensky’s first piano trio is one of those overlooked treasures in music. Not only is it by a less popular name, but it’s also a chamber piece, and for some reason chamber music is overlooked in favor of big symphonies or solo piano music. Written in the 1890s, the work is very lyrical, and the instruments flow with each other in a way that feels free form. The slow movement is something special; I first heard it [the first time I even heard of this work] at a chamber music recital given by some of the musicians at my college who were playing as part of their final. It was the highlight of the evening.
Because this "hidden gem" is full of gorgeous melodies, it has gotten more popularity recently and will hopefully inspire more musicians to keep it in the standard rep.
Robert Schumann (1810-56) - Phantasiestücke for Piano Trio, Op. 88, II Humoreske: Lebhaft. Performed by Aapo Häkkinen, 1843 Pleyel piano, Réka Szilvay, violin, and Alexander Rudin, cello, on period instruments.
This Friday! #WestCoast #premiere of my new #pianotrio #BARROQUEADA by Puget Sound Piano Trio - #MariaSampen #violin - Alistair MacRae #cello - Ronaldo Rolim #piano - Miguel del Aguila Info: https://www.pugetsound.edu/events/lecture-performance-series/jacobsen-concert-series
Give it a squint and the title of the Matthew Shipp Trio’s latest recording reveals a double meaning. World Construct denotes a concept, an idea of how things should be that informs how the trio’s members operate. It is also a command, an ungrammatical but immediate order to make a world. The two meanings are linked by the notion that a world can be made, which is exactly what drummer Newman Taylor Baker and bassist Michael Bisio do with the piano player whose name adorns the record’s cover.
The trio has operated with this line-up since 2015, and even if it’s Shipp’s world, each of the other players is an essential component of it. Take anyone out of the mix, and the idea of what the Matthew Shipp Trio is changes. Bisio brings an expanded idea of counterpoint, one that not only includes playing a part that locks into and completes another player’s part, but also one that operates in a quasi-lunar relation to the home planet. Which is to say that even when he sounds like he’s playing around what everyone else is playing, his gravity changes the action on the surface, just like the moon influences the tides. And Baker is as much a creator of shake and structure as he is a vector of motion; the sounds issuing from his kit hang about the bass-piano conversation like a mobile being moved by a purposeful and architecturally minded breeze.
It must be admitted that the world in which this trio operates is one in which Matthew Shipp has already made a whole lot of records. He used to say he was going to quit making more, but at this point he isn’t even trying to stop; if anything, he’s grown more productive. If he said tomorrow that he was stopping, who could possibly believe him? So, for those who recognize the merits of those involved, but aren’t up for grabbing every album, why single out World Construct for attention? It presents an ensemble whose dynamics have matured, but not settled into routine. The pianist’s intimations of gravity and lyricism, the bassist’s capacity to elaborate upon his partners’ implications, and the drummer’s fantastic economy of gesture are all in peak form. Trust me, there are far worse worlds in which to spend an hour.
5 Passion Records, 2022
Ubiegłoroczny album “Skyline” nagrany z udziałem Rona Cartera i Jacka DeJohnette’a zapoczątkował prezentację nagrań Gonzalo Rubalcaby z różnymi składami klasycznego fortepianowego tria. Drugą odsłoną tego projektu jest płyta „Turning Point”, a pianiście towarzyszyli tym razem Matt Brewer oraz Eric Harland.
Pierwsza część zaplanowanej trylogii dała Rubalcabie możliwość…