National Sawdust: Fidelio Trio
$29.20
- Darragh Morgan, violin
- Timothy Gill, cello
- Mary Dullea, piano
Philip Glass — Head On
Linda Buckley — Galura
David Fennessy — Piano Trio No. 2: In Memoriam Spencer Boney
John Zorn — Ghosts, Op. 70
inti figgis-vizueta — shadow in the garden
Irish piano trio "the virtuosic Fidelio Trio" (Sunday Times) make their much-anticipated debut at National Sawdust bringing a typically eclectic offering of unique works for this line-up, featuring music specially composed for Fidelio Trio. Anna Clyne's evocative 2020 lockdown work A Thousand Mornings draws inspiration from a Mary Oliver poem of the same title. Fidelio Trio were invited by Philip Glass to record Head On for his label Orange Mountain. Irish composer Linda Buckley, who recently co-wrote the music for Nothing Compares, a documentary about Sinéad O Connor, with her sister Irene, has collaborated with trio for over 25 years and is heard here in her work Galura. Fellow Irish composer David Fennessy composed his Piano Trio No. 2 "In Memoriam Spencer Boney" for Fidelio Trio also in 2020, marking the 25th anniversary of the untimely death of the trio's original pianist Spencer Boney.
The programme also includes John Zorn’s eerie Ghosts, influenced by Beethoven's trio of the same name; and is completed with shadow in the garden by inti figgis-vizueta inspired by walks in the garden of Dumbarton Oaks.