Pēteris Vasks: Works for Piano Trio Trio Palladio

• Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946): Lonely Angel:
• 1 Lonely Angel (Version for Piano Trio) 15:13
• Episodi e canto perpetuo:
• 2 Episodi e canto perpetuo: No. 1, Crescendo 02:45
• 3 Episodi e canto perpetuo: No. 2, Misterioso 04:41
• 4 Episodi e canto perpetuo: No. 3, Unisono 01:45
• 5 Episodi e canto perpetuo: No. 4, Burlesca I 03:21
• 6 Episodi e canto perpetuo: No. 5, Monologhi 02:37
• 7 Episodi e canto perpetuo: No. 6, Burlesca II 03:30
• 8 Episodi e canto perpetuo: No. 7, Canto perpetuo 06:20
• 9 Episodi e canto perpetuo: No. 8, Apogeo e coda 03:33
• Plainscapes
• 10 Plainscapes (Version for Piano Trio) 18:10
• Total Runtime 01:01:55

Info for Pēteris Vasks: Works for Piano Trio

Latvian composer Peteris Vasks (b.1946) has earned much international acclaim through his deeply spiritual works of choral music, symphonies and concertos. Vasks’ list of works also includes several pieces of chamber music. This album by Trio Palladio from Latvia includes Vasks’ works for the piano trio.

Trio Palladio is a chamber music ensemble of three established Latvian soloists, avid chamber musicians and acclaimed recording artists Eva Bindere, Kristina Blaumane and Reinis Zarinš. Each of them is the laureate of the Grand Music Award of Latvia, and in 2019 they were nominated for this prestigious award as a trio. Recently the trio had its debut recital at the London Wigmore Hall and the trio’s interpretations have been broadcast live on the BBC Radio 3, as well as the Polish and Latvian radio. Trio Palladio creates conceptual programmes with a rich variety of classical, romantic and contemporary chamber music, with particular focus on works by Latvian and Baltic composers.

Trio Palladio:
Eva Bindere, violin
Kristīne Blaumane, cello
Reinis Zarins, piano

Trio Palladio
was named after Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) – one of the most influential architects of all time. The Renaissance genius drew inspiration from a concept by legendary Roman architect Vitruvius: architecture requires a connection with both the arts and the sciences, based on numbers and proportions. Andrea’s teacher Gian Giorgio Trissino, a renowned poet, playwright, and linguist, designated the young master as Pallas, the epithet of Athena – goddess of wisdom, knowledge, arts, crafts, warcraft, the mind, mastery, dexterity, and invention.

Incidentally, classical Greek and Roman forms and proportions settled in Palladio’s buildings and ideas which had a powerful influence across both coasts of the Atlantic Ocean. In his collected musings Maxims and Reflections (1833), published shortly after Goethe’s death, the poet wrote: “A noble philosopher [poet, mystic Novalis] spoke of architecture as frozen music; and it was inevitable that many people should shake their heads over his remark. We believe that no better repetition of this fine thought can be given than by calling architecture a speechless music.”

The musical aspiration of Trio Palladio is to bring to life Palladio’s architectural values and Goethe’s ideas about the connection between architecture and music, when he wrote in passing that “the sounds fade away but the harmony lives on”.

Trio Palladio has been nominated in the category "Outstanding achievements throughout the year" at Grand Music Award of Latvia 2019.

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