Alex Shapiro, composer: Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano

Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano

Total duration ca. 12 minutes (1998)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
Three movement work: "Allegro," "Adagio," and "Vivace."
30 pages, 8.5" x 11".

Premiered on November 8, 1998 in Los Angeles, CA.
by Bronwen Jones, clarinet; Marcy Vaj, violin
and Genevieve Lee, piano.

Recorded in August 1999 by Berkeley Price, clarinet;
Nancy Roth, violin and Deon Nielsen Price, piano.

Audio clip performed by Berkeley Price, clarinet;
Nancy Roth, violin and Deon Nielsen Price, piano.

Also related:

Flea Circus

Flea Circus is a one minute recording created from the third movement of "Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano": Vivace, recorded by the Price Trio. Created for the 2008 VoxNovus 60 x 60 Project.

Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano is featured on the Price Duo's Cambria Master Recordings CD, Clariphonia: Music of the 20th Century on Clarinet (CD-1125).

"...sharply rendered..."

-------—Steven E. Ritter, American Record Guide Nov/Dec 2001

"...truly interesting and very lovely.."

-------— Jeff Gower, The Delius Festival Report, April 1999

Award winner in the Best Instrumental Music category
from the Composers Guild
and Best Performance category
from the Delius Association of Jacksonville, Florida.

View the first page and hear a music sample of any of the three movements:
	View	Hear
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Vivace
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Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano was composed at the suggestion of my dear friend, composer and clarinetist Bronwen Jones, whose wonderful encouragement of my work has directly led to my ongoing delight in creating more of it. This particular piece was composed using classical sonata form as a point of departure for a more modern tonal and rhythmic palette, and each of the three movements evokes a distinctive mood.

The Allegro introduces a strong theme, first heard in the clarinet and then developed for all three instruments throughout the movement. A quiet piano entrance begins the Adagio, an unabashedly romantic gesture that gradually builds with a lyrical, ascending line. The third movement, Vivace, is a fun, raucous sort of gypsy dance that cavorts through bitonality and shifting meters and ends the entire Trio with a big grin.

1. Allegro

D2. Adagio

D3. Vivace