Repertoire

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Handel
Trio Sonata in F (8′)

C.P.E Bach
Six Sonatas (8′)

Telemann
Trio Sonata (9′)

Vivaldi
Pastorale (4′)

J.S. Bach
Inventions & Suite

Quantz
Trio (9′)

Classical Classics

Stamitz
Trio Sonata (8′)

Lalliet
Terzetto, Op. 22 (10′)

Brod
Duo from Lucia di Lammermoor (5′)

Mozart
Trio, KV 252 (10′)

Rossini
Fantasie Concertante “Semiramide” (12′)

Beethoven
Trio, Op. 38 (35′)

Solo Spotlight

Stravinsky
Songs from The Nightingale

Schumann
Fantasiestucke, Op. 73 (8′)

Rossini
Fantasie Italienne in Algiers (14′)

Poulenc
Sonata for Oboe and Piano (11′)

Mendelssohn
Songs Without Words, Op. 117

Beethoven
Trio, Op. 11 (22′)

Latin Spices

Paquito D’Rivera
Afro
Danzon

Enrique Gonzalez-Medina
Six Tangos (10′)

Mike Curtis
Five Haupangos (8′)

Henri Brod
Fantasy on a Spanish Air, Op. 5 (11′)

Astor Piazzola
From the Four Seasons
Primavera Porteño
Otoño Porteño

American Groove

Thomas Benjamin
Three Etudes for Trio (2003) + (10′)

Michael Head
Trio for oboe, bassoon & piano

David Diamond
Partita +

Madeline Dring
Trio for oboe, bassoon & harpsichord (1986)

David Sargeant 
Kaleidoscope (2007)

Andre Previn
Trio (1994) (12′)

Music with Friends

Mahler with voice
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Benjamin with violin
Scriabin Sits in at Birdland (2004) +

Devienne with string trio
Quartet for Bassoon and Strings

Mozart with string trio
Quartet for Oboe and Strings

Poulenc wind quintet & piano
Sextour for Piano and Winds

Prokofiev wind quintet
Peter & The Wolf

Contemporary

Thomas Benjamin
Three Etudes for Trio (2003) +

Thomas Benjamin with violin
Scriabin Sits in at Birdland (2004) +

Geoffrey Bush
Trio

Mike Curtis
Five Haupangos (2003)

Lorenzo Ferrero with orchestra
Triple Concerto (2006) +

Steven Gerber
Prelude and Fugue (2003) +

Enrique Gonzales-Medina
Suite Latina (2006)

Jakov Jakoulov
Yiddish Lexicon (2010) +

Jakov Jakoulov with orchestra
Il Giorno Vivente e la Notte Eterna (2011) +

Laura Kaminsky with film
Horizon Lines (2011)

Nataliya Medvedovskaya
First Snow (2009) +

Zurab Nadareishvilli
Two Dialogues (2009) +
Urban Songs (2009) +

Gaetano Panariello
Trio Filastrocca (2007) +

Gaetano Panariello with orchestra
Triple Concerto (2008) +

Igor Raykhelson with violin
Contemplations (2004) +

Igor Raykhelson with violin
Blues Chase (2004)

David Sargeant
Kaleidoscope (2007)

Elam Ray Sprenkle
February (2003) +

+ Commissioned and premiered by the Poulenc Trio

20th Century

Chabrier with voice
Linvitation D’voyage

David Diamond
Partita +

Vincent D’Indy
Trio in B-flat, Op. 29

Ernst von Dohnanyi with string trio
Sextet for piano, strings and winds

Madeline Dring
Trio for oboe, bassoon & harpsichord (1986)

Paquito D’Rivera
Afro
Danzon
Preludio y Merengue

Henri Dutilleux
Sarabande et Cortege

Willard Elliot
Six French Songs

Jean Francaix
Trio (1994)

Sofia Gubaidulina
Quasi Hoquetus

Michael Head
Trio for oboe, bassoon & piano

Hindemith
Sonata for bassoon

Kallinikov
Chanson Triste

Kempis
Symphonia, Op. 3

Kirsh
Sinfonietta Concertante, Op 10

Mahler with voice
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Piazzola
Chau Paris

Piazzola
Oblivion

Piazzola
Four Seasons

Poulenc wind quintet & piano
Sextour for Piano and Winds

Poulenc
Sonata for Oboe and Piano

Poulenc
Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

Andre Previn
Trio (1994)

Prokofiev for bassoon
Sonata in A major

Prokofiev with wind quintet
Peter & The Wolf

Saint-Saens
Sonata for bassoon and piano

Alex Shapiro
Desert Notes

Shostakovich
Moscow Cheryomuski

Shostakovich
Suite from The Gadfly

Stravinsky
Songs from The Nightingale

Octavio Vázquez Rodríguez
Suite for Bassoon & piano (1996)

Lorenzo Ferarro

DEsCH (2006)

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera lists Lorenzo Fererro as “the most successful composer of opera of his generation”. Born in 1951 in Turin, Italy, Fererro’s works have been commissioned and performed around the world. He is currently Professor of composition at the Milan Conservatory.

In this first of our triple concertos, the Trio plays true opposition to a dark and atmospheric mood in the strings.  The title is the composer’s tongue in cheek nod to the Poulenc Trio’s Russian heritage, and refers to a well-known musical motif used often by Dmitri Shostakovich. Premiered in 2006 with Vladimir serving as both oboist and conductor.

Gaetano Panariello

Omaggio all’opera buffa (2009)

Gaetano Panariello is perhaps Italy’s best loved composer of musical theatre for youth. He is director of the Conservatory at Avellino, and he has premiered two ballets at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and operas at the world renowned La Scala opera house in Milan. His first composition for the Poulenc Trio, the Suite Filastrocca, was premiered to great acclaim by the Poulenc Trio at the Ravello Festival on the Amalfi Coast, Italy in 2006.

The work, for full orchestra, was premiered in 2009 with the Bay Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, in New Jersey, Jed Gaylin conducting.

Notes from the composer:

The 18th Century “Neapolitan School” in Italy created the opera buffa, a very popular form of farcical comic opera that used simple motifs and lively rhythmic structures. When the Poulenc Trio asked me to compose a triple concerto for them, I immediately thought of paying tribute to the famous Neapolitan genre by using some of its typical features. I have structured the concerto’s three movements as:

1. Introduzione e cavatina: The introduction to the first movement is a kind of little overture that presents the tunes that follow and, more importantly, establishes the concerto’s lively and playful atmosphere. The cavatina presents the bassoon as a “comic basso” (perhaps a resourceful servant? a gullible man?) who warms up his voice with a long vocalise before singing.

2. Introduzione e romanza: The romanza presents the pianist as a “young woman of a good family” who is daydreaming and waiting for her Prince Charming.

3. Introduzione e finale: The third movement presents an astute oboe (a cunning tenor) like a Neapolitan Pulcinella. This oboe-Pulcinella with its enthralling rhythms, dynamics and timbres “forces” the bassoon and the piano to adapt their themes to its own humorous style.