{"id":4854,"date":"2013-01-29T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2013-01-29T16:37:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:37:50","slug":"cd-review-strad-magazine-matthew-rye-on-galkrasa-complete-string-trios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2013\/01\/29\/cd-review-strad-magazine-matthew-rye-on-galkrasa-complete-string-trios\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Review- Strad Magazine, Matthew Rye, on Gal\/Krasa Complete String Trios"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the December 2012 issue of\u00a0The Strad<\/a><\/p>\n

A disc of String trios where time and place play an inescapable role<\/p>\n

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Here is music for string trio by two composers of Jewish heritage from the same generation, whose experience of the cold hand of Nazism resulted in different fates. The Viennese Hans G\u00e1l managed to escape to Britain in 1928 and lived to the ripe old age of 97; the unluckier Czech-born Hans Kr\u00e1sa enjoyed, if that\u2019s the word, a brief stay of execution at the Jewish show camp of Terezin before being murdered in Auschwitz aged 44. The players of Ensemble Epomeo capture the charm of G\u00e1l\u2019s delightful neo-Classical Serenade (1932) with a sense of line and subtlety of texture. But, one feels, they could have brought more muscle to the emotional sound world of the F sharp minor Trio, with its nostalgic throwback to pre-war Vienna viewed from the sanctuary of 1970\u2019s Edinburgh (and which in its original version included a viola d\u2019amore).<\/p>\n

However, they certainly don\u2019t hold back in the short Kr\u00e1sa pieces, written during the composer\u2019s last days in Terezin. Here they exploit the dance-of-death tendencides of the Tanec and the sense of order overthrown in the Passacaglia and Fugue (each of which dissipates into Expressionist anarchy) and a frightenly challenging end. A warmly-recorded and thought-provoking disc.<\/p>\n

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Matthew Rye<\/p>\n