You might also like

Availability alert

More about Piano Trio

• Title details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 117 loyalty points

Title synopsis

Mathias's only piano trio was composed in 1965 for the Tunnell Trio, which commissioned the work and gave its premiere on 9 July in the Town Hall at that year's Cheltenham Festival. The piece comes almost directly between the two major early orchestral works, the Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 27 (for the RLPO) and the Symphony No. 1, Op.31 (for the CBSO). Mathias's writing is exuberant but always tautly controlled. His control of structure - articulated in terms of a personal brand of sonata form - is already masterly. In the opening movement the material is tightly integrated but the rhetorical discourse unfolds naturally. The scherzo is a rhythmic tour-de-force while the slow movement blends lyricism and rhetoric in a manner which is characteristically Celtic. The finale is a bright, even occasionally folksy rondo with the odd American twinge from time to time. Geraint Lewis

Title details

Title category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: Piano Trio
• Language: English
• Binding: Sheet music
• Number of pages: 40
• EAN: 9780193577817
• ID: 04861851
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 225 g
• Dimensions: 311 × 232 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. August 1986

Trending among others

---

---

---