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HVOSLEF / VALEN / EGGE Trios
Valen Trio.
Lawo Classics: LWC1037

Fartein Valen has latterly become appreciated as an important Scandinavian composer, but he was not appreciated in conservative Norway and had to move away to Germany to pursue his ideals towards atonal expressivity, a long path which entailed more than 1,200 pages working on this trio from 1917 and 1924...

The three trios here are each entirely different, Egge's the most readily accessible, Hvoslev's the quirkiest.

The presentation is, I suppose, Nordic - with one of the most off-putting double-page illustration I've ever seen !

But be brave, this is a recommendable CD for chamber music enthusiasts and explorers.

Peter Grahame Woolf