Torsten Rasch’s 2005 Piano Trio demonstrates the composer’s ability to synthesise and invent using musical languages new and old. The 35-minute piece is recognisably Classical in its form and proportions, cast in four movements: a sonata-form opening, fiery scherzo and trio, freer and more lyrical adagio, and rondo-with-variations finale. Rasch’s musical language otherwise draws on an expressionist twelve-tone language, at times effusively lyrical and at others more terse and austere. This product comprises the piano score and parts.
“…high emotional energy and dramatic undertow…”
Guardian (Rian Evans), 11 July 2006
- For
- Piano
- Publisher
- Faber Music
- Pages
- 116