All three of the composers featured on this enjoyable album of contemporary piano trios were born in England, but all of the music has strong connections with Scotland and an unmistakable Scottish flavor even as it is quite diverse in style. The album's title comes from an opera by Nigel Osborne, material from which was adapted into the short movements constituting the work of the same name here. Only the first contains an effect suggesting the tuning of a piano, but the others expand on that idea in delightful ways, ...
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All three of the composers featured on this enjoyable album of contemporary piano trios were born in England, but all of the music has strong connections with Scotland and an unmistakable Scottish flavor even as it is quite diverse in style. The album's title comes from an opera by Nigel Osborne, material from which was adapted into the short movements constituting the work of the same name here. Only the first contains an effect suggesting the tuning of a piano, but the others expand on that idea in delightful ways, introducing various scales, some of them Asian, and beginning to treat them fugally. Sally Beamish's The Seafarer Trio, with mystery novelist Alexander McCall Smith as narrator, offers incidental music of a sort for the titular Anglo-Saxon poem, presented here in a modern translation: "My mind is cast upon the sea swell, over the whale's world widely to course creation's coast: a closing rapture keenly calls." Judith Weir's Piano Trio No. 2, written after "contemplating what a Zen piano...
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