Acclaim
FLOURISHES, NZTRIO
12 November 2010
The Rattle label does good work promoting New Zealand music. Flourishes frames two reflective commissions from local composers, I Wayan Gde Yudane’s “Entering the Stream” and Eve de Castro-Robinson’s “At water’s birth”, with Mozart’s K502 and Ravel’s splendid Piano Trio. Also in the mix is Arvo Part’s 1992 “Mozart-adagio”, the Estonian composer’s intriguing injection of space into the slow movement of piano sonata K280. The range is impressive, less so the audio production, with somewhat veiled sound and short track separation.
Jonathan Le Cocq - The Listener