Year: 2018/2019

Orchestration: violin, cello and piano.

Duration: ca. 32 minutes

Program Note:

The Aquinas Piano Trio (Ruth Rogers, Katherine Jenkinson and Martin Cousin) collaborated with Stone Records to make the first commercial recording (20-22 December 2020) and CD of the piece. The framework of the whole was fashioned as a continuous seven-movement design along the lines of Beethoven’s string quartet Opus 131 but including linking passages between all movements except the first two. The links vary in length and each refers to earlier material. The often extreme fluctuations in mood throughout the trio reflect some of the turbulent events of the year of composition (gun violence in USA and war crimes in Syria.)

The fourth and sixth movements, extracted from the recording, are available on this site.

The work is to received its premiere in England on 2nd December 2022.

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