Trio Joie de Vivre: Original Voices

Trio Joie de Vivre presents Original Voices, a programme of music composed specifically for flute, bassoon and piano.

The programme spans more than two centuries. Am d e Rasetti s Trio in C major, Op. 13 No. 2 is rooted in the Classical tradition, while Gaetano Donizetti s youthful Trio, A. 507 gives us the future opera composer in an intimate chamber setting, with the lyrical melodies that would become such a distinctive feature of his music.

Gary Schocker s witty and virtuosic Sonate Souffl (2002) brings us firmly into the contemporary repertoire. Its three movements, Batter, Matter and Patter, reveal Schocker s characteristic humour and rhythmic energy.

The collection also includes three contemporary character pieces by Grant Horsley. Violette (A Love Theme) draws on Romantic and film music, Sunshine is a jazz waltz with an improvisatory middle section, and Nocturne looks back to the lyrical nineteenth-century nocturne tradition.