Fidelio Trio: Bulb

Fidelio Trio: BulbThe Fidelio Trio has never been content to accept the piano trio repertory as they found it; soloists in their own right, with a special enthusiasm for contemporary music, the Trio brings the medium of piano trio back to life and straight into the twenty first century with these four works, three of which were specially written for the ensemble. Ed Bennett's for Marcel Dzama extends the soundworld of the piano trio with electronic sound and

the disc is completed with Richard Causton’s poetic

presence/absence melds a disparate quintet into a slowly changing continuum – what makes them anything but forbidding is the energy and exuberance that powers so much of Hayden's invention

one of three live recordings on the disc

Slow Down was recorded at the Forge

Certainly it is one of Birtwistle’s major offerings

dark and hypnotic journey led by the almost constant

DICK LUCAS (Stichting NTR

Jonathan Leathwood Guitar

'Writing film scores quickly

and the virtuosity

BERT KRAAIJPEL Recording Engineer

but little of that paid tribute to the loss of so many young lives