Rebecca Clarke - Piano Trio (1921) [w/ score]

This is one of my new favorite pieces!
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) - Piano Trio (1921)
Performed by the Lincoln Trio www.cedillerec...
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00:00 I. Moderato ma appassionato
10:05 II. Andante molto semplice
16:07 III. Allegro vigoroso
From Kai Christiansen
Slowly but surely, Rebecca Clarke is being rescued from obscurity through sporadic performances of her chamber music works. The sum of her compositions for chamber music, chorus and solo song is about 100 yet only 20 were published during her long lifetime.
The Piano Trio is an extraordinary work of striking originality and craft reflecting some of the most modern influences of the time including Ravel, Bloch and Debussy with its impressionist atmosphere and a deft use of motifs in a cyclical form. It begins with a dark, dissonant and alarming theme: a series of big chords hammered on the piano like the clanging of heavy bells. The theme is a “motto” in that it will recur throughout all three movements in various transformations while retaining its rhythmic and intervallic shape. Its cramped, angular line expands into a simple “trumpet” call, clear and bright, and then onward seamlessly into a second theme with a flowing lyricism of great warmth. The first movement oscillates between the two ideas. The slow, middle movement begins with a much softer version of the motto stretched out in long, sinuous lines by the strings on top of shimmering piano figurations, almost like a misty memory of the first movement featuring, again, the angular motto morphing into the second lyrical theme now exquisitely rarefied. The vigorous rondo finale introduces a third idea: a perky, scurrying theme with an Asian folk character derived from pentatonic and whole tone scales, both lending it a spacious “gapped” quality. Between recurrences of this new energetic refrain, the two previous themes reappear in reverse order leading to a bright, affirmative conclusion. It is often suggested that Clarke’s trio of 1921 is a reflection of WWI with its violent devastation and its dual aftermath of sorrow and renewed hope.
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[@Lisztman1]

1st movement theme: the best way to perform a "Happy Birthday" in classical music

[@asa.pankeiki]

Yes! More Rebecca Clarke! I hope to see more of her works in the future here and elsewhere

[@elizabethaustin7451]

The Rhapsody for Cello and Piano has now been published. I'm over the moon with joy and beginning to learn it!

[@LucTaMusic]

A monumental work.

[@a-ramenartist9734]

That opening wow, I can tell Im going to enjoy this

[@rossanopinelli5150]

Composer of the first magnitude!

[@peterlim5730]

thank you. Very rich and delectable !

[@brucebennett5338]

fantastic!

[@davidfitzgerald2681]

Thanks for uploading this Adam. I just heard the second movement on BBC Radio 3 and wondered if I’d be able to find it, and here it is thanks to you! Must check out more of her stuff. Where best to start? 🙏

[@SCRIABINIST]

A bit impressionistic and Debussy like with the writing and harmonies but very original!

[@sukk2511]

Very interesting - but why does RUclips give me this when my search was for Clarke's 'Poem' for string quartet??

[@pierrefontenelle9271]

It's true that the trumpet motif is very reminiscent of Bloch, specifically in his cello rhapsody, Schelomo!

[@thaihanguyen4748]

Can you share this score with me? This is a wonderful piece of music. Thanks a lot.

[@andreassorg7294]

1:55 Ravel, Le Gibet

[@toria4084]

Can you please send me the sheet music for viola and violin! I really want to play this sonata in the state exam 🥺

[@AdamMusicWorld]

I only have the score, but I'll share it if I can find it

[@AdamMusicWorld]

here it is: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3gg6umfjfu8beczp25z5y/clarke-piano-trio.pdf?dl=0&rlkey=slcomxthdna31o9gj70pk0wpz

[@toria4084]

​@@AdamMusicWorld Thank you so much!!!

[@nb2816]

She writes better Bloch than Bloch did himself, lol.

[@andreassorg7294]

Unfortunately the Lincoln Trio doesn't know what means following the score and create transparency

[@andreassorg7294]

I'm sorry, but this is not high quality. Too many repetitions, too much augmented sixte ajoutée harmony and too much prolixity. No feeling for compressing the musical material, which means the highest level in composing. She couldn't decide, what to write: French impressionism, English folk or German romantizism, so she stole from her own viola sonata. She uses Ravel's technique, but has not his genius

[@i_am_a_music_maker5212]

You eva played rugby

[@TheArtofMusic5]

I agree but this trio is still really nice to play

[@andreassorg7294]

@@TheArtofMusic5 Yes. It's often that quality of composition and fun of playing them are different things