Matrix: Music Of Louis Karchin CD

The season begins with the final installment of the Claremont Trio's cycle of Beethoven's complete works for piano trio at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The Trio also will perform at the La Jolla Music Society, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, the Los Alamos Concert Association, the Des Moines Art Center, Worcester's Mechanics Hall, and many other venues nationwide throughout the year. They will tour with guest violist, Ida Kavafian, and play the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra. Claremont programs offer a refreshing blend of standard repertoire and new music, highlighting the works not only of Mozart, Beethoven, and Dvořák but of such composers as Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Leon Kirchner, Paul Schoenfield, and Mason Bates. The Claremonts, whose reading of the Shostakovich Trio No. 2 was described by the Los Angeles Times as "an inspiring, forceful performance", celebrate the 100th anniversary of this composer's birth with the release of a recording of both his piano trios coupled with Arensky's Trio in D minor, Op.

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