It’d be faster to run through the A-listers who didn’t release an album in 2018 than the ones who did.
Nee, hier blijven sores, stress maar ook klein geluk en pleziertjes dicht bij de luisteraar.Last year was a banner year for big-name artists dropping big-name releases. Niks geen bombast à la Strauss’ Sinfonia Domestica. Een persoonlijk document dat een ontwapenend kijkje in het huishouden van de Milhauds biedt. Het ensemble presenteert naast het trio van Schmitt ook een speciale bewerking van de pianocyclus La Muse ménagière (‘De huishoudelijke muze’) van Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)….Het frisse resultaat mag er wezen. In meerdere opzichten….Los van het niveau van de uitvoering is zeker ook de programmering een schot in de roos. Het Prisma String Trio, daterend uit 2002 en bestaande uit Janneke van Prooijen, viool, Elisabeth Smalt, altviool, en Michiel Weidner, cello, is hier baanbrekend bezig. Een nieuw hoogtepunt uit de gestaag groeiende catalogus van Cobra Records. Volumineus en heel intens, fraai opgenomen in het Schiedamse Westvest90. Op het album La Muse (‘De muze’) klinkt het Prisma String Trio in het in 1944 geschreven Trio à cordes opus 105 van Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) zelfs bijna als een strijksextet. Die sensatie wordt hier nog wat doorgetrokken. Het gekke van strijktrio’s vind ik altijd dat ze de neiging hebben met één speler minder toch voller te klinken dan strijkkwartetten. Bringing NativeDSD listeners an exclusive bonus – this wonderful album in Pure DSD! Other editions of this album (CD, Downloads, Streams) were all mixed in DXD.
Pure DSDįor this release, NativeDSD Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield has teamed with Cobra’s Producer and Recording Engineer Tom Peeters to take the album’s original DSD256 recording session takes and then mixed and balanced them in the DSD domain using the Signalyst HQ Player Pro 4 mastering tools.Įach DSD bit rate is individually mixed, balanced, and remodulated to the DSD delivery quality in a separate individual pass. Prisma have performed in The Royal Concertgebouw, De Doelen, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ and Rijksmuseum halls, at international festivals such as Wonderfeel, Grachtenfestival and November Music and on radio and TV. Firmly rooted in the classical string tradition, the Trio presents music from all over the world, from all ages and in many styles, bringing the historic and the contemporary together in an organic way. Since its inception in 2002, Prisma String Trio has been lauded for its cutting-edge performances.
The arrangements of these 15 miniatures have been specially arranged for Prisma String Trio by their loved ones, their own muses: Bob Gilmore, Petra Griffioen, Tim Kliphuis en Marijn van Prooijen. Out of gratitude he wrote 15 miniatures for her: La Muse Ménagère. He was lovingly cared for throughout his life by his wife Madeleine. Milhaud’s health is frail for most of his life and he ends up in a wheelchair. We know Darius as the figurehead of the famed Groupe des Six and Madeleine is a celebrated actress and librettist. The Prisma String Trio dares to take on the challenge of honoring this notoriously tricky work with a modern recording. There is no modern recording of the Trio à Cordes only 2 LPs were made in 19. A string trio with such unique lyricism and such rich harmonies is not often heard, it is overflowing with expression and romance. Overwhelming, there is no other word for the Trio à Cordes by Florent Schmitt. Darius Milhaud names his wife Madeleine as his muse and pours his gratitude into a musical tribute. Was it inspiration, call it the Muse, which brought the two together? Florent Schmitt’s muse is Music itself, leading him on in an explosion of compositional creativity. And yet, Prisma String Trio feel their works are a beautiful match and complement each other well. The two composers could not be more different and might be said to clash.
One is turbulent and magnificent, the other intimate and poetic. La Muse features two completely different works by French composers both written in 1944: Trio à Cordes Op.105 by Florent Schmitt and Suite La Muse Ménagère’ by Darius Milhaud. It is just the third time the work has been commercially recorded - and the first one in more than three decades. This long-awaited album features a new recording of Florent Schmitt’s extraordinary Trio a Cordes (1944).