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29 May 2010 : Flourishes. NZ Trio. Rattle CD.
Sarah Watkins (piano), Justine Cormack (violin) and Ashley Brown (cello) have played together since forming this trio in 2002, and they have developed a splendid rapport.
This is their third album, which features the same varied programme the group played in Dunedin last November.
It ranges from Mozart's Piano Trio K.502, to Ravel's Piano Trio, with contemporary works by Aarvo Part, Indonesian Wayan Yudane, and New Zealand composer Eve de Castro-Robinson. The last two wrote commissioned works for the trio.
Mozart sparkles and his ideas are explored by Part in a reconstruction of an adagio movement from a piano sonata.
The major work is the Ravel trio, which is beautifully played, apart from the second movement's sprightly dance lagging slightly in tempo.
Highlight: Yudane's gamelan-influenced Entering the Stream, with imitative birdcalls.
Geoff Adams - Otago Daily Times
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