TRIOS FOR VIOLIN, HORN AND PIANO
Unusual chamber music combinations are all the rage (c.f. the Vedehrs' 200 trios for violin, clarinet & piano) and here are three commissions by a Danish violin, horn and piano trio, their disc launched in Canterbury earlier this month. I have to say that the other commissions here, from far better known composers, are less engaging, and require rehearing. Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's is introverted to the extreme - "quiet, searching music" in which the notes writer Henrik Friis finds "an ambivalent world, with the composer's pecuiar humour lurking in the background"; the violinist has to vocalise too... Peter Grahame Woolf
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