Trio
For Violin, Cello, and Piano - Full Score and Parts
by Martin Bresnick
Piano Trio - Sheet Music

Chamber Music Violin, cello, Piano

SKU: CF.MXE9

For Violin, Cello, and Piano - Full Score and Parts. Composed by Martin Bresnick. Piano SWS+Inserts. Carl Fischer Chamber Music Edition. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 1988. 48+16+12 pages. Carl Fischer Music #MXE9. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.MXE9).

ISBN 9780825865701. UPC: 798408065706. 9 X 12 inches.

This exciting work for violin, cello and piano was commissioned by and dedicated to the Monticello Trio. Diverse and rhythmically challenging, Trio piece in four movements leads the listener through several moods that include the sparseness of Simply Inexorably in the first movement, the lightness and syncopation in the second movement titled Cat’s Cradle and the tender feelings expressed in movement three called Spoken, Tenderly. All of the aspects of the first three movements are transformed in the fourth movement titled Ardently, Lost where the rests in the music play as much of a part as the notes played in the movement’s texture. In this final movement, there is no resolution as the piece moves towards an ambiguous conclusion. A fascinating work sure to be a hit on a chamber music recital!.
Martin Bresnick’s Trio is in four movements, each with a suggestive title reflecting thespirit of the movement. The first movement “Semplice, Inesorabile” translates as “simply,inexorably.” The second movement, subtitled “Cat’s Cradle,” makes reference to thechildren’s game in which the players pull symmetrical string patterns from each other’shands; a kind of folk calculus. “Leggiermente con Accenti Diversi” refers to the lightnessof the movement as well as its varied accentual patterns. The third movement, “Parlando,Affetuoso” (spoken, tenderly), ends with a piano cadenza that leads without pause into thefourth movement. In this final movement, marked “Ardente, Sperduto” (ardently, lost),aspects of the first three movements, now transformed, are recalled as the compositionmoves towards an ambiguous conclusion.