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Joaquin Turina: Chamber Music for Strings and Piano / Lincoln Trio
Posted by Paul Ballyk on Jan 18, 2015 in Romantic | 0 comments
Much of the music of Joaquín Turina (1882 – 1949) is reasonably well represented on disc, including his songs, pieces for solo piano and for guitar, and some of his orchestral works. In the area of chamber music, however, aside from a few of his most popular pieces, little has been recorded. This excellent release by the Lincoln Trio on Cedille Records of Turina's complete chamber music for strings and piano offers a welcome opportunity to obtain, appreciate and enjoy some little known but very fine chamber music.
Turina began his musical studies in Seville and Madrid before moving to Paris in 1905 where he became a student of Vincent d'Indy and absorbed elements of the French style of composition. He also became familiar with impressionist composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel - acquaintances that are certainly not lost on his music. However, it was his friendship in Paris with Manuel de Falla and Isaac Albéniz that had the most lasting effect on Turina's music. These fellow Spaniards convinced the young composer that he should look to the unique melodies, rhythms and colors of Spain for his inspiration.
Disc one of the set contains four works, all of them trios for violin, cello and piano. Opening the disc is his earliest chamber music composition, the Piano Trio in F major of 1904. Concluding disc one is Circulo, Op. 91; premiered in 1942, it is his latest work in the genre. What are perhaps the composer's best-known chamber works lie between - the Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 35 and Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 76. It's interesting to hear the evolution of Turina's art on this one disc of identically scored compositions that span his entire career.
Turina's Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 67 opens the second disc of the set, the first movement of which is the sample from the album that you can listen to in the right sidebar. While it may be less structured in form than many of the other pieces on the 130-plus-minute program, it fairly represents all the music to be heard here. The early Quintet in G minor, Op. 1 that follows opens with a slow and measured fugue; it's a clear illustration of the influence of Baroque and Classical forms and methods in Turina's early works, and indeed, in his entire output. Winding the program to a fitting and pleasing conclusion is the sextet Escena Andaluza of 1912.
I've not encountered the Lincoln Trio prior to this recording. They are a world-class chamber ensemble, providing beautifully polished performances, and must be commended for their foray into this little known but highly rewarding repertoire.
Following the success of its groundbreaking Cedille Records debut, Notable Women, the Lincoln Trio brings its “interpretative flair” (The Strad) and “masterly finesse” (Cleveland Plain Dealer) to the early 20th-century chamber music of Spanish-born, French-trained Joaquín Turina in a richly varied program of audience pleasing works blending Spanish dance and folk influences with romanticism and French impressionism.
The album offers Turina’s complete works for multiple strings and piano — four trios, a quartet, quintet, and sextet, including what is only the second recording of Turina’s lovely early Piano Trio in F Major. Among the Lincoln Trio’s guest artists on the CD is violist Ayane Kozasa, first prize winner at the 2011 Primrose International Viola Competition.
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Joaquín Turina, composer Joaquín Turina (1882 – 1949) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Turina was born in Seville but his origins were in northern Italy (between Verona, Brescia and Mantova). He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid. He lived in Paris from 1905 to 1914 where he took composition lessons from Vincent d’Indy at his Schola Cantorum de Paris, and studied the piano under Moritz Moszkowski. Like his countryman and friend, Manuel de Falla, while there he got to know the impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy. In 1908 he married Obdulia Garzón, who was to bear him five children. She was the dedicatee of the Danzas fantásticas, which he completed in 1919. Along with de Falla, he returned to Madrid in 1914, working as a composer, teacher and critic. In 1931 he was made professor of composition at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. He died in Madrid. Among his notable pupils were Vicente Asencio and Celedonio Romero. His works include the operas Margot (1914) and Jardín de Oriente (1923), the Danzas fantásticas (1919, versions for piano and orchestra), La oración del torero (written first for a lute quartet, then string quartet, then string orchestra), chamber music, piano works, guitar pieces and songs. Much of his work shows the influence of traditional Andalusian music. He also wrote a short one-movement Rapsodia Sinfonica (1931) for piano and orchestra. His music often conveys a feeling of rapture or exaltation. He wrote several pieces for the Classic Guitar, including “Fandanguillo” and “Hommage a Tarrega,” which were written for Andrés Segovia. The dedicatee and/or first performer of a number of his piano works was José Cubiles. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Turina
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 Desirée Ruhstrat, violin  David Cunliffe, cello  Marta Aznavoorian, piano
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Lincoln Trio, ensemble Formed in 2003, the Chicago-based Lincoln Trio —made up of Desirée Ruhstrat, violin, David Cunliffe, cello, and Marta Aznavoorian, piano— takes its name from their home, the land of Lincoln. The trio has been praised for its polished presentations of well-known chamber works and its ability to forge new paths with contemporary repertoire. The group’s reputation as a first-rate ensemble draws an eclectic audience of sophisticated music lovers, young admirers of contemporary programs and students discovering chamber music for the first time. Bringing together performing experience spanning the globe, each member is an artist of international renown. Violinist Desirée Ruhstrat has performed throughout the US and Europe, appearing at the White House and performing on live radio broadcast heard around the world with the Berlin Radio Orchestra; cellist David Cunliffe has performed with the BBC and Royal Scottish orchestras as well as touring as a member of the Balanescu Quartet; pianist Marta Aznavoorian has appeared with the Chicago Symphony and has performed at the Kennedy Center and the Sydney Opera House. The trio has performed throughout the United States, including appearances at Carnegie’s Weil Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Bryant Park Festival, Lane Concert Series, as well internationally, in Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and South America. Champions of new music, the Lincoln Trio has performed numerous compositions written especially for them, including premieres of seven works by members of the Chicago Composers Consortium. The Trios extensive discography includes “Notable Women” released on the Cedille Label which featured Grammy and Pulitzer prize winning composer Jennifer Higdon, Joan Tower, Lera Auerbach, Stacy Garrop, Augusta Read Thomas and Laura Schwendinger. Other releases on the Cedille label include “Composers In the Loft”, “In Eleanors Words: Music of Stacy Garrop” and “The Billy Collins Suite”. 2013 saw the critically acclaimed and GRAMMY nominated release on the NAXOS label of “Annelies” based on the Diary of Anne Frank with Westminster Williamson Voices, Clarinetist Bharat Chandra and soprano Arianna Zukerman. The Midwest premiere was given at the Ravinia Festival in February 2013 with the Chicago Children’s Choir and was the featured concluding event of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 20th Anniversary Tour of the United States in Chicago at the Harris Theatre. In October of 2014 the Trio released their latest CD with which includes the entire works of Joaquin Turina for piano and strings on the Cedille Label. Staunch proponents of music education, the Lincoln Trio has had residencies at the Music Institute of Chicago as well as San Francisco State University, University of Wisconsin Madison, and SUNY Fredonia. |
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