Alive & Kicking

The piano trio has been a popular arrangement for composers for several hundred years now. Whereas in the days of Haydn and Mozart it was mainly used to liven up piano sonatas a little, from the Classical era, particularly with Beethoven, each instrument was given an increasingly independent role. Beethoven even transcribed two of his symphonies for it.

No wonder that today’s composers are also drawn to the many possibilities of the piano trio. Loevendie can express his fondness for non-Western music in Ackermusik. Verduin seeks to create oceans of sound. While the music of Nas, in contrast, requires square-millimetre precision.