'String Trio' played by Apartment House
Apartment House perform a revised arrangement to Jürg Frey’s beautifully melancholic 2017 composition for Sheffield based new music bastion, Another Timbre.
’String Trio’ is presented here in its “final” form by Apartment House’s Mira Benjamin (violin), Bridget Carey (viola), and ensemble director Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), the latter of whom recently performed Jack Sheen’s ‘Solo for Cello’ on Trilogy Tapes. The piece was originally commissioned by the Concertgebouw Brugge and premiered by Goeyvaerts Trio as part of the 2019 SLOW Festival, but the composer felt “that it hadn’t yet arrived at its final destination” and returned it to the drawing board, reapplying his un-systematic composition process to result this new iteration, by one of the UK’s most esteemed and prolific performers of new composition, following their 2022 articulation of Frey’s ‘Borderland Memories’.
This first recording of the newly finished work sensitively brings to light its calm architecture of genteel melancholy, typically paced with Frey’s singular temporality and sympathetic to his working methods. From the stark, long opening cello notes to the explicit romantic heartache of its closing minutes, the 47’ work is defined by a contemplative pensiveness familiar to Frey’s work and starkly apparent here. It’s not so much mournful as wracked with a sense of despondence, with a continuity of tonal atmosphere that follows the composer’s deliberate line of thought, with little left to chance as the process of refinement saw him clarify questions that arose from its initial performances. Strong, controlled feelings articulated with intense, disciplined passion.
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Apartment House perform a revised arrangement to Jürg Frey’s beautifully melancholic 2017 composition for Sheffield based new music bastion, Another Timbre.
’String Trio’ is presented here in its “final” form by Apartment House’s Mira Benjamin (violin), Bridget Carey (viola), and ensemble director Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), the latter of whom recently performed Jack Sheen’s ‘Solo for Cello’ on Trilogy Tapes. The piece was originally commissioned by the Concertgebouw Brugge and premiered by Goeyvaerts Trio as part of the 2019 SLOW Festival, but the composer felt “that it hadn’t yet arrived at its final destination” and returned it to the drawing board, reapplying his un-systematic composition process to result this new iteration, by one of the UK’s most esteemed and prolific performers of new composition, following their 2022 articulation of Frey’s ‘Borderland Memories’.
This first recording of the newly finished work sensitively brings to light its calm architecture of genteel melancholy, typically paced with Frey’s singular temporality and sympathetic to his working methods. From the stark, long opening cello notes to the explicit romantic heartache of its closing minutes, the 47’ work is defined by a contemplative pensiveness familiar to Frey’s work and starkly apparent here. It’s not so much mournful as wracked with a sense of despondence, with a continuity of tonal atmosphere that follows the composer’s deliberate line of thought, with little left to chance as the process of refinement saw him clarify questions that arose from its initial performances. Strong, controlled feelings articulated with intense, disciplined passion.