Christian Wolff
Trio IX / Exercises
LabelWergoGenreComposition
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The American composer Christian Wolff (b. 1934) is the last living representative of the New York School (Rauschenberg, Rothko, etc.). Wolff was not even an adult when he studied with Grete Sultan and John Cage. Wolff’s music was much more politically motivated than that of Feldman and Cage, which is evident on this new Wergo album by Trio Accanto. The album features first recordings made in close collaboration with Wolff in the studios of Deutschlandfunk Cologne/Germany. Wolff's great “Trio IX – Accanto” (2017) is a testament to his long-standing friendship with the musicians. Peculiarly serene and unobtrusively narrative, the piece features many reminiscences and hidden quotations from music by J. S. Bach to union songs. There are also tributes to Wolff's own “Exercises”, whose more recent numbers can be heard on the album as well.
Release notes
Trio IX - Accanto commissioned by Trio Accanto, first performed 3 nov 2018, Mozart-Saal Wien 1-2, 4-9 first recordings
| Trio IX - Accanto | |||
| 1 | Part I | ||
| 2 | Part II | ||
| Exercises | |||
| 3 | Exercise 32 | ||
| 4 | Exercise 37, Version 1 | ||
| 5 | Exercise 29 | ||
| 6 | Exercise 30 | ||
| 7 | Exercise 31 | ||
| 8 | Exercise 37, Version 2 | ||
- Trio Accanto
- Ensemble
- Seth Brodsky
- Liner Notes
- Christian Dierstein
- Percussion
- Nicolas Hodges
- Piano
- Marcus Weiss
- Saxophone
