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String Trio No.1, Op.48
Category | | Chamber Music > Instrumental - Strings |
Composed | | 1989 |
Duration (approx) | | 11 minutes |
Parts | | Violin, viola, cello
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Recording(s) | | Winter Passions | Publisher | | Faber Music | Commission | | Nash Ensemble with financial assistance from IBM UK Ltd.
| First performance | | 9 December 1989 | Venue | | Wigmore Hall, London | Orchestra / Ensemble | | Nash Ensemble | Review | | Richard Morrison, The Times, 11 December 1989 | | | David Matthews’s String Trio… packed four elegant movements into ten minutes. The Scherzo was a superb illusion: three instruments sounded like six in the process of pitting frantic off-beat chords against long lines. The jewel was in the slow movement: straight off the English elegy shelf, but beautifully dissolved into vibrato-less chords and harmonics.
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