Take 3
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Take 3
Reto Bieri (clarinet), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Polina Leschenko (piano)
[ Alpha Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 15 March 2024
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The basic idea of this album was to play in threes... Not to play 'something', but to experiment 'in threes' with sound worlds as different as those of Bartok, Poulenc and Schoenfield. With his Contrastes, composed in 1938 for Benny Goodman, Bartok broadened his penchant for traditional music and turned it into a more universal work, influenced by jazz. Poulenc was a child of the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, influenced as much by Stravinsky, Ravel and Satie as by cabaret songs and operetta. Paul Schoenfield, born in Detroit in 1947, also likes to combine styles. Each of the movements in his trio is based on an Eastern European Hasidic melody...not forgetting the breathtaking klezmer dances of Romanian Serban Nichifor.Almost ten years afterTake 2(Alpha211), Patricia Kopatchinskaja reunites with two great accomplices, clarinettist Reto Bieri and pianist Polina Leschenko, for a programme based around trios that celebrate the roots of these three musicians
"[The playing] can affectionately embrace the whimsical to the manner born, but equally bristles with spellbinding virtuosity, compelling insight and crests a lifeforce carrying all before it." 5/5 BBC Music Magazine
"The playing has a totally infectious sense of exploration and liberation. The Poulenc Clarinet Sonata and Bartók's Contrasts are investigated with, I think, an unusual degree of freedom and passionate engagement and these are three musicians for whom conventional expressive limits don't necessarily apply." - Record Review
Tracks:
Poulenc: L'invitation au château, FP. 138: IV. Mouvement de valse-hésitation
Bagatelle in D minor
Clarinet Sonata, Op. 184
Schoenfield: Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano
Bartók: Two Burlesques, Op. 8c, Sz. 47, BB55: No. 2
Nichifor: Klezmer Dance
