Morgenstern Trio - Tailleferre Fontyn & RavelNamed after the German poet Christian Morgenstern, the Franco German "Morgenstern Trio" has selected a "triad" of Franco Belgian composers for their new CD, centered around Ravel's Piano Trio in A Minor (1914). Violinist, pianist and teacher Kolja Lessing, a friend of the trio, drew their attention to the two relatively unknown works by Germaine Tailleferre (1892 1983) and Jacqueline Fontyn (born in 1930). For the three trio members, the main point of

Vick once again shows herself to be a fearless seeker shedding light on the unanswerable

While at first one might have difficulty drawing a connection between the two composers

the Swedish pianist (and neuroscientist) Fredrik Ullén has introduced the first 83 études to a wider audience

and Bear Family hired expert music historian Bill Millar to select the uptempo songs that pointed towards rockabilly and rock 'n' roll

features guitarist Julian Lage and percussionist Zakir Hussain

the Ignaz Pleyel Quartet plays for the first time the 1792 published string quartets

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This remarkable work helps us both to appreciate the development of Berlioz's style- already revolutionary in his early years- and to understand what he owed to his contemporaries