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Work Overview
In the first movement of his Trio Bradshaw utilises a melodic motif established initially on violin but with all instruments playing in their lower registers, so that this same sense of lament conveyed in Via Crusis is equally expressed in the Lento movement here. The composer messes with this theme using a range of harmonic and textural devices and moves it into different instruments where it has completely different conveyances. He also shifts the pitch range from lower to upper registers, at times with voices converging and at others, with a chasm between them. The tight, plaintive harmonies from 'cello and viola at the end of the movement, with a ghostly trail of melodic fragments on violin, is awesome.
There is a Stravinsky-esque urgency in the rhythmic and harmonic drive of the second movement, but it remains uniquely Bradshaw. It provides a strong counterpoint to the first. And then the final movement, which breaks all 'movement' conventions, is, as in the first, based on a riff, but here it is a sustained harmonic underlay on viola and 'cello with a haunting melody atop as is the case at the end of the first movement. We are reminded that Bradshaw works as a producer across a plethora of idioms, and the whole notion of a riff 'sticking' if you will, is used with great finesse in this and the previous movements. It really is a sublime Trio.
Reviewed by Mandy Stefanakis
Work Details
Year: 2003
Instrumentation: Violin, viola, cello.
Duration: 16 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Contents note: I. Lento -- II. Tempo di Valse -- III. Sostenuto.
Commission note: Commissioned in 2003 by Ivan Vukčević for the Trigon String Trio (Switzerland)
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