Casablancas: Piano Trios B3:Brouwer Trio

• Benet Casablancas (1956-): Piano Trois
• 1 Moviment per a trio 09:43
• 2 Impromptu 04:17
• 3 Si, a Montsalvatge! 04:33
• 4 Cant per a Frederic Mompou, Remembranca 02:40
• Tres Haikus (2008)
• 5 No. 1. — 00:32
• 6 No. 2. — 02:04
• 7 No. 3. — 00:58
• Encore (1992)
• 8 Encore, Hoja de album 04:07
• Haiku para Zurbaran (2010)
• 9 Haiku para Zurbaran 01:07
• Lamento, Haiku para Ramon Barce (2009)
• 10 Lamento, Haiku para Ramon Barce 01:29
• 11 Jubilus, Homenatge a Jordi Savall 02:59
• Jubilus, Homenatge a Jordi Savall (2011)
• 12 Impromptu, Trio No. 2 10:57
• Come un recitativo (1995)
• 13 Come un recitativo 01:45
• Dos Apunts (1976)
• 14 No. 1. — 00:49
• 15 No. 2. — 00:46
• Tríptico (1996)
• 16 I. Amoros, lliurement 02:27
• 17 II. Passacaglia 03:07
• 18 III. Liebeslied 02:47
• Tres Haikus (Segunda Colección) (2013)
• 19 No. 1. Full de Dietari, Para Antonio Munoz Molina 00:45
• 20 No. 2. Rafagues de llum 00:23
• 21 No. 3. Memento para Maria del Carme Casablancas: Trist i lent 01:40
• Haiku para trio (2007)
• 22 Haiku 02:05
• Total Runtime 01:02:00

Info for Casablancas: Piano Trios

Widely performed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Benet Casablancas is regarded as one of the leading Spanish composers of his generation. His music engages profoundly with the legacy of the first half of the 20th century, combining a refined and personal harmonic palette with a sharp attention to textural detail and a strong sense of dramatic and narrative form. The works in this world première recording span almost forty years of Casablancas’s output, from an early tribute to Mompou in Dos Apunts, to his recent musical expression of Japanese verse in the two sets of Tres Haikus.

Carlos Apellániz, piano
Elena Solanes, cello
Jenny Guerra, violin

The B3:Brouwer Trio
undertake contemporary works with the same rigor in concept, energy and passion they dedicate to Classical-Romantic repertoire, making them a unique formation in the current field of Spanish chamber music, as stressed by critics who have complimented their brilliant performances for their “beauty in sound, individual virtuosity, clear and balanced blend, and flexible sense of rhythm”. Their compromise with contemporary music is their motivation and main basis of their work, as can be noticed by the numerous works specially dedicated to the trio by composers such as Leo Brouwer, Jordi Cervelló, Mauricio Sotelo, Marcela Rodríguez, Voro García, Eduardo Morales-Caso, Igmar Alderete, Jose Javier Peña Aguayo, Claudia Montero, Georgina Derbéz, Yalil Guerra, Alfonso Ortega, Doménech González de la Rubia, Enrique Sanz-Burguete, Juan Luis Martínez, Roberto Mosquera, Daniel A. Cozzi, or Ariel Hagman.

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