Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio
Set Of Five
NA036

David Abel, violin; Julie Steinberg, piano; William Winant, percussion.

One admires the trio's great skill at getting across music whose deceptively simple surface conceals great intellectual depth, even at its most playful.

--Fanfare

This collection presents a view of Pacific Rim influences in modern classical composition. Among the many structural inventions, devices and languages developed in western art music during the twentieth century there exists a profound eastern influence.

This influence is sometimes overt (as in the Cowell and Harrison trios), with the use of exotic percussion and a the-world-is-one inspiration. It is sometimes implicit (as in the Cage and Satoh pieces), which opens time to, in Satoh's English, "not simply progress from past into future, but slowly describes a circle."

The Hovhaness piece, of five invocations, delves further through cultural icons to the ancient Armenian sun god, Vahakn.

Track List

1. Nocturne (John Cage) 4:28

Set of Five (Henry Cowell)
2. I 3:11
3. II 2:17
4. III 4:12
5. IV 2:47
6. V 4:03

Invocations to Vahakn (Alan Hovhaness)
7. I 2:18
8. II 2:40
9. III 2:18
10. IV 1:12
11. V 2:40

12. Toki No Mon (Somei Satoh) 14:30

Varied Trio (Lou Harrison)
13. I 3:16
14. II 3:07

15. III 3:31
16. IV 3:12
17. V 2:05

Total: 63:00

$15.00

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