Ravel, Shostakovich & Ives: Piano Trios Triple Forte

• Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Piano Trio in A minor
• 1 I. Modere 09:07
• 2 II. Pantoum - Assez vif 04:12
• 3 III. Passacaille - Tres large 06:28
• 4 IV. Finale - Anime 05:25
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8
• 5 Piano Trio No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 8 13:07
• Charles Ives (1874-1954): Piano Trio
• 6 I. Moderato 04:44
• 7 II. TSIAJ - Presto 06:02
• 8 III. Moderato con moto 12:22
• Total Runtime 01:01:27

Info for Ravel, Shostakovich & Ives: Piano Trios

Triple Forte, Canada’s elite piano trio presents its first recording. With near-limitless ability, violonist Jasper Wood, cellist Yegor Dyachkov and pianist David Jalbert will delight listeners with their performances of music by Maurice Ravel, Charles Ives, and Dmitri Shostakovich. Between 1904 and 1923, these composers tackled the Piano-Trio genre for the first time, and each found himself facing serious challenges; there are but few examples of contemporary trios.

„Dyachkov and Saulnier play with intensity and involvement. I have seldom heard such effortless technical playing and such smooth phrasing.“ (American Record Guide)

Triple Forte:
Jasper Wood, violin
Yegor Dyachkov, cello
David Jalbert, piano

Triple Forte
brings together three of Canada’s most prominent soloists. Violinist Jasper Wood, cellist Yegor Dyachkov and pianist David Jalbert have joined forces to create this sought-after piano trio. They have captured critics’ and audiences’ attention with their passion, intelligence and sensitivity, not to mention the sheer joy that they bring to the stage: “This was a splendid concert. I’d miss sunshine, football or Santa for music like this any day.” (The Globe and Mail).

Jasper Wood
has established himself as a major talent of his generation. He made his first public appearance at the age of five, and has since captured the hearts of music lovers everywhere with his "thrilling virtuosity" (The Strad) and his "sweet tunefulness edged in melancholy" (Washington Post). An acclaimed competition winner, Wood has developped a flourishing reputation as a sought-after soloist with major orchestras including Canada's Montreal and Toronto Symphonies and as a recital/chamber musician throughout North America and Europe. He has been awarded both the coveted Sylva Gelber Prize (1996) and the prestigious Virginia Parker Award (2004) from the Canada Council for the Arts. Mr. Wood has eight solo and violon/piano CD recordings on the Endeavor Classics, Centrediscs, Disques Pelleas and Naxos labels. Jasper Wood is professor of violin at the University of British Columbia.

Yegor Dyachkov
Named Canadian “Artist of the Year” by the CBC in 2000, Yegor Dyachkov “is undoubtedly a cellist of great stature ... he has it all.” (La Presse,Montreal).An impressive recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician, he tours internationally, and his performances are broadcast and televised in Canada and abroad. His schedule includes invitations from the Évian, Kronberg, Tanglewood and Vancouver festivals as well as from the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Phiharmonic of Flanders, the Montréal Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Yegor Dyachkov has premiered works dedicated to him such as the Sonata by Jacques Hétu, Ironman by Michael Oesterle, as well as Menuhin: Présence by the late André Prévost. Born in Moscow in 1974,Yegor Dyachkov‘s principal mentors have been Aleksandr Fedorchenko in Moscow, Yuli Turovsky in Montréal and Boris Pergamenschikow in Cologne.

David Jalbert
is one of the most remarkable talents of the new generation of pianists. With his personal style, incomparable stage presence and refined ear, he has wowed audiences and critics everywhere in North America: “a deeply musical pianist ” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), “a virtuoso in the best sense of the word ” (La Presse), “…wide-ranging musical imagination, phenomenal technique, and anunerring lightness of being ” (The Toronto Star).

Mr.Jalbert also performs with his dynamic piano trio (with violinist Jasper Wood and cellist Yegor Dyachkov) under the name “Triple Forte ”. He has collaborated with the Alcan Quartet, as well as with pianists Anton Kuerti and Naida Cole. Mr.Jalbert is the 2007 winner of the prestigious Virginia Parker Prize of the Canada Council for the Arts.

David Jalbert has been a guest soloist with many great orchestras,such as the Montreal Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the CBC Radio Orchestra and the National Symphony of Ireland, and has collaborated with conductors like Skitch Henderson, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bramwell Tovey, Jacques Lacombe, Marc David, Dmitry Liss and Mario Bernardi.

He has performed in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe; his vast repertoire of solo and chamber music stretches from Bach to Ligeti.Mr.Jalbert ’s interests in literature,cinema,rock ’n ’roll and blues shine through in his musical selections, which can be heard regularly on CBC Radio and Radio-Canada broadcasts.

David Jalbert holds two Artist Diplomas: one from the Juilliard School in New York, the other from the Glenn Gould Professional School in Toronto. He received his Master’s Degree from the Université de Montréal at age 21, winning the Governor General’s Gold Medal for the best results of all of the University ’s graduate students. His main teachers have been Jerome Lowenthal, Marc Durand, André Laplante and Pauline Charron. He has also worked with Leon Fleisher,John Perry, Claude Frank, Gilbert Kalish and Marylin Engle.

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