Ravel: In Search of Lost Dance Linos Piano Trio

• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Piano Trio in A Minor, M. 67:
• 1 Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor, M. 67: I. Modéré 09:35
• 2 Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor, M. 67: II. Pantoum. Assez vif 04:31
• 3 Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor, M. 67: III. Passacaille. Très large 07:44
• 4 Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor, M. 67: IV. Final. Animé 05:31
• Pavane pour une infante défunte (Arr. Linos Piano Trio):
• 5 Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte (Arr. Linos Piano Trio) 06:08
• Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 (Arr. Linos Piano Trio):
• 6 Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 (Arr. Linos Piano Trio): I. Prélude 03:34
• 7 Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 (Arr. Linos Piano Trio): II. Fugue 03:45
• 8 Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 (Arr. Linos Piano Trio): III. Forlane 05:34
• 9 Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 (Arr. Linos Piano Trio): IV. Rigaudon 03:15
• 10 Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 (Arr. Linos Piano Trio): V. Menuet 05:13
• 11 Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 (Arr. Linos Piano Trio): VI. Toccata 03:57
• Total Runtime 58:47

Info for Ravel: In Search of Lost Dance

“In the face of change, memory becomes precious. This is especially true for Maurice Ravel whose important source of creativity lies in evoking the memories of music from the past. In Ravel’s hand, these memories are delicately suspended between decadence and invention, between nostalgia and progressiveness. Such memories reside in the body, in the form of half-forgotten dances, to be simultaneously recalled and reinvented.

The Linos Piano Trio’s In Search of Lost Dances recording centres on the time of greatest change in Ravel’s life, juxtaposing his seminal Piano Trio, written weeks before the outbreak of the First World War, with Le Tombeau de Couperin, written between 1914 and 1917—each of its six movements dedicated to a friend lost to the war. Mirroring each other, the baroque dances of Le Tombeau illuminate the less obvious dances hidden in the Piano Trio, while the textural innovation in the Piano Trio serves as a model for Linos to reimagine Le Tombeau in this new trio arrangement. These two major works are complimented by Pavane pour une Infante défunte (also transcribed by Linos), a much earlier work evoking the stately 16th century Spanish dance. Marcel Proust, whose epic book In Search of Lost Time was the inspiration for the title of this recording, loved Pavane pour une Infante défunte and had it played at his own funeral.

While both the titles of the Pavane and Le Tombeau have funereal overtones, the music itself is vivid and full of light. It is as if through these backward-glancing dances, Ravel processed his losses. However, the emphasis for us in In Search of Lost Dances is not on the “lost”, but rather on the “search”: a new path through these three well-known pieces, re-finding their novel ingenuity.” (Linos Piano Trio)

Linos Piano Trio:
Prach Boondiskulchok, piano
Konrad Elias-Trostmann, violin
Vladimir Waltham, cello

Linos Piano Trio
“Reinventing the repertoire”: it may seem like a tall order, but this is how the Linos Piano Trio describes the philosophy at the heart of its music making. This reinvention comes about in two ways. The first is through the musicians’ interpretations of the core repertoire; they look at each piece as if it were newly composed, setting conventions aside and bringing it to light in a fresh and personal way. The second is by extending the breadth of the repertoire in order to expand the range of works listeners are traditionally presented in piano trio recitals, be that through commissioning new music, their own arrangements of pieces written for different types of ensembles, or through championing unjustly neglected works.

First Prize and Audience Prize winner of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2015, the Linos Piano Trio is increasingly recognised as one of Europe’s most creative and dynamic trios.

Drawing on the rich and varied cultural and musical backgrounds of its members, which encompass five nationalities, as well as specialisms in historically informed performance and new music, the Linos Piano Trio possesses a colourful and distinctive musical voice. Praised for its “slow-burning, gripping performance” by The Strad, and an “astounding performance” by the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, the trio’s reputation has taken it to prestigious venues worldwide including the Barbican and Wigmore Halls, Melbourne Recital Centre, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, Holzhausenschlösschen in Frankfurt, Théâtre Saint-Louis in France, and the György Ligeti Saal in Graz.

Founded in October 2007, the Linos Piano Trio studied at the Guildhall and then at the Musikhochschule Hannover with Oliver Wille and Markus Becker. The ensemble has also received the guidance of Sir András Schiff, Peter Cropper, Ferenc Rados, Rainer Schmidt and Eberhard Feltz. The trio first came to prominence in the Tunnell Trust Showcase for Young Musicians, and in 2014 was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Albert and Eugenie Frost Prize for an outstanding ensemble.

The Linos Piano Trio recorded the complete Piano Trios by C.P.E. Bach to celebrate the 300th anniversary of his birth, and the CDs will be released by CAvi-music this summer. In 2016 the trio embarked on its current, on-going project, ‘Stolen Music’, a rapturously received series of creative arrangements of orchestral masterpieces such as Wagner’s Prelude to Tristan and Isolde, and Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

The Linos Piano Trio recently made their debut appearance in Italy, and their busy 2019-20 season includes numerous performances across the UK as well as concerts in France and Germany.

Since 2017 they have held the position of ‘Artists-in-Residence’ at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London.

Linos (Λῖνος) was a celebrated musician in Greek mythology. The son of Apollo, Linos received from his father the three-stringed lute, and became known as the inventor of new melodies, lyric songs, and eloquent speech. As one of the original demi-gods of music, Linos had many pupils, most famously Heracles and his brother Orpheus.

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