David Matthews: Piano Trios
Gemma Rosefield (cello)
Leonore Piano Trio
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Editor's Choice
Matthews describes the Leonore Piano Trio’s lively and evocative performance as ‘definitive’. Their cellist, Gemma Rosefield, gives equally searching accounts of Journeying Songs
David Matthews: Piano Trios
Gemma Rosefield (cello)
Leonore Piano Trio
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Editor's Choice
Matthews describes the Leonore Piano Trio’s lively and evocative performance as ‘definitive’. Their cellist, Gemma Rosefield, gives equally searching accounts of Journeying Songs
About
David Matthews (b. 1943) has become one of the UK’s leading composers, both of symphonic and chamber music. One US reviewer described his string quartets as ‘musical thinking of the highest order and quartet writing in the great tradition of Beethoven, Bartók, Britten, and Tippett’ – influences that Matthews readily acknowledges.
These three piano trios evoke two other masters, since they have something of the drama of Shostakovich and the lyrical intensity of Vaughan Williams.
All these elements are drawn together in Matthews’ own voice to make these works some of the most moving chamber music of recent years, in performances that the composer considers exemplary.
Contents and tracklist
- Leonore Piano Trio
- Leonore Piano Trio
- Leonore Piano Trio
- Gemma Rosefield
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineApril 2017Editor's Choice
June 2017
Matthews describes the Leonore Piano Trio’s lively and evocative performance as ‘definitive’. Their cellist, Gemma Rosefield, gives equally searching accounts of Journeying Songs
April 2017
Try the Adagio of Matthews’s Second Trio, of 1993. Over a measured accompaniment on the piano, violin and cello sing and climb and soar; a long, glorious melody that simply builds and builds...Matthews is a romantic. You don’t have to read the booklet-notes...to sense that...The Leonore Trio have clearly lived with this music; their playing is alert and stylish, unafraid to let the melodies soar.
10th February 2017
There are some wonderful works here, impressively played, containing some of Matthews’ finest music. They receive excellent recordings and there are informative notes from the composer.
Classical Ear 14th August 2017
Music of genuine substance, consummate craftsmanship and communicative power from the pen of David Matthews. Sound and balance, too, are beyond reproach. Do investigate!
