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REPERTOIRE: 20th AND 21st CENTURY

Adams, Sebastian - 2013.8

Antheil, George - Trio (1950)  
Armstrong, Tom  - Divertissements (World Premiere) - 12’
Arnold, Malcolm - Piano Trio Op.54 (1956) - 13'
Attwood, William - Upgraded Row for Simon (2002) - 3'
Bainbridge, Simon - Piano Trio (UK Premiere)
Baker, Richard - Kerdantata (FT commission)
Barry, Gerald

   - In the Asylum

   - Triorchic Blues (Trio version, World Premiere) -  5’
Beamish, Sally - The Seafarer Trio (with narrator) - 30’
Bedford, Luke - Chiaroscuro - 8’
Bendall, Maxim - Up to that pausing moment
Bennett, Ed

   - for Marcel Dzama (FT commission) - 12’
   - Slow Down (World Premiere) - 11'
Bingham, Judith - Chapman’s Pool (1997) - 16'
Birtwistle, Harrison - Piano Trio - 13'
Blake, Michael - Carpet of Memory - 13'
Bolcom, W - Spring Trio
Bodley, Seoirse - Dancing in Daylight (FT commission)
Bowden, Mark - airs no oceans keep
Bowen, York - Trio (1945)
Bridge - Phantasie Trio
Brown, Earle - Music for violin, cello & piano - 4’
Browning, Zack – Blockhouse

Buckley, Irene – Stray for low whistle and piano trio (FT commission)

Buckley, Linda – Ceolas for uilleann pipes, violin and cello (FT commission)

Buckley, John - Piano Trio (FT commission) - 15’
Buckley, Linda - Galura (FT commission) - 9’
Bush, Alan - Trio
Bussotti - Three - Lovers’ Ballet  
Cadwur - James, Christopher - Tschei Hora (World Premiere) - 7’
Carter, Elliott - Epigrams - 13'
Cashian, Philip - Pietro’s Machine (1999) - 3'
Casken, John - Piano Trio (2002) - 20'
Cassella - Sonata a tre Op. 62  
Clarke, Rhona - Piano Trio No. 2  
Clarke, Rhona – A Different Game (World Premiere)

Clarke, Rhona – Piano Trio No. 3

Cleare, Ann – 93 million miles away (FT commission)

Clyne, Anna – a thousand mornings (FT commission)

Copland, A - Vitebsk, Study on a Jewish Theme  
Corcoran, Frank - Piano Trio - 9’
Corea, Chick - Addendum - 5'
Coult, Tom - The Chronophage (UK Premiere)
Cowell, Henry - Four Combinations for Three Instruments

(1924) - 15’
Crane, Laurence - For Ros and Peter - 4'
Cutler, Joe - Archie (2005) - 5’

Cutler, Joe – McNulty (FT commission)

Daugherty, Michael – Regrets Only

Davey, Shaun – Happy Out for uilleann pipes and piano trio (FT commission)

Deane, Raymond 

   - Embers (Piano Trio version, FT commission) – 6’
   - Marche Oubliee - 8'
Dennehy, Donnacha - bulb (2006) (FT commission) - 12'
Denisov, Edison - Trio (1971) (UK Premiere) - 15'
Dusapin, Pascal - Trio Rombach (1997)  
Dwyer, Benjamin - Nocturnal, after Benjamin Britten (FT commission)
Dwyer, Benjamin - Piano Trio II - 20’
Edwards, Ross - Piano Trio  
Feldman, Morton - Trio - 70'
Fennessy, David - Music for the Pauses in a Conversation between Morton Feldman and John Cage - 14'
Fennessy, David – In memoriam Spencer Boney, Piano Trio No. 2 (FT commission)

Festinger, Richard – Tapestries

Finnissy, Michael - June

Finnissy, Michael

   - Independence Quadrilles (1995) – 13’
   - Bright Future (2000) - 3’
   - Ignoring Dark Past
Firsova, Elena

   - Piano Trio No. 1 (1972) – 8’
   - Mad Vision (1993) - 10'
Fitkin, Graham - Lens (2003) - 18'
Fokkens, Robert - Mammals of Southern Africa

(FT commission) - 15’

Fox, Christopher – this is the wind (World Premiere)
Fuentes, Arturo - Piano Trio (FT commission) -  
Fujikura, Dai - Unaccountable espressivo  
Furrer, Beat - Retour an Dich (UK Premiere) - 14’
Gardner, Stephen - The Mayfly (FT commission) - 6'
Garcia, Orlando - Entanglements (European Premiere)
Gerhard - Trio 
Glass, Philip - Head - On (1967) - 4'

Glass, Philip – Pendulum

Goh, Zechariah - Xu

Gosfield, Annie – Cranks and Cactus Needles

Gordon, Michael Zev – In the Middle of Things (FT commission)

Goehr, Alexander - Trio (1961) - 20'

Goehr, Alexander – Nightown, Piano Trio No. 2 (FT commission)
Grainger, Percy - Colonial Song  
Gribbin, Deirdre - How to Make the Water Sound (FT commission) - 15'
Guilfoyle, Ronan - A Little Blues
Hallgrimsson, H - Metamorphoses (London Premiere) - 12'
Hammond, Philip - Five Meditations (FT commission) - 20’
Harbison, John

   - Piano Trio (1969) – 7’
   - Piano Trio (2003) - 17’
Harvey, Jonathan - Trio (1971) - 15'
Hayes, Morgan - Völklinger Hütte (World Premiere) - 6’
Heath, Dave - Berlin Wall (1989) - 10’
Hellawell, Piers - Etruscan Games - 15'

Hellawell, Piers – Up By The Roots for narrator and piano trio (FT commission)
Henze, Hans Werner - Adagio, adagio - 5'
Higgins, Gavin - Ruins of Detroit (FT commission)
Hind, Rolf - the thing is (2006) (FT commission) - 13'
Hosokawa, Toshio - Memory (1996)  
Howard, Emily

   - Broken Hierarchies II (FT commission) – 6’
   - Songs from Dickens (with mezzo - soprano and speaker) (World Premiere) - 10’
Hughes, E. D. - Media Vita (1991) - 10’

Irvine, Brian – A History of Love (FT commission)
Ives, Charles - Trio
Jegede, Tunde - Songs of the Eternal  
Johnson, Tom - Predictables - 15’
Johnston, Fergus - Piano Trio (FT commission)  

Karchin, Louis – Trio (World Premiere)

Kagel, Mauricio - Trio
Kaminsky, Laura - Vukovar Trio (UK Premiere) - 12’
Kats - Chernin, Elena - The Spirit and the Maiden  

Keeley, Rob - Piano TrioKer, Dorothy - Onaia (FT commission)

Ker, Dorothy – Onaia

Kirchner, Leon - Trio (1954) - 15'- Trio II (1954) - 15'

Koapeng, Mokale - Fourever Colourful  

Koh, Joyce Beetuan – IX Lives of a Cat

Korngold, E - Trio Op. 1 

Lang, David – Wed

Larcher, Thomas

   - Kraken - 25'
   - My illness is the medicine I need (with soprano) (London Premiere) - 15’
Lefanu, Nicola - Piano Trio
Levine, Alexander - Piano Trio No. 1 (1995) (World Premiere) - 25'

Ludwig, David – Three Yiddish Dances
Lund, Erik - Unknown Origins  
Lyons, Frank - The River Still Sings (with live electronics, soundscapes and visuals) 
MacMillan, J - 14 Little Pieces (1997) - 25'

Mallon, Áine – Elderly Craftsman at his Bench for soprano and piano trio (FT commission)

Marsh, Roger - Cracks

Martin, Neil – Fite Fuaite for uilleann pipes and piano trio (FT commission)
Matthews, C - Nocturne (1997) - 2'
Maw, N - Trio (1991) - 32'

Mawhinney, Simon – In Three (World Premiere)
Maxwell - Davies, P - A Voyage to Fair Isle (2002) - 19'
Malipiero, F - Sonata a tre  

McDonald, John – Calpentyn Alternatives

McKay, Deirdre – The Owl for soprano and piano trio (FT commission)
McLachlan, John - Natural Order (FT commission) - 10’
Metcalf, John - Rest in reason, move in passion…  
Molitor, Claudia - After the strangely monumental

(FT commission) - 10’
Morricone, E - Distanza  
Muhly, Nico - Twins   
Muldowney, D - Piano Trio (1980) - 16'
Nicolson, Alasdair - Piano Trio (Half Told Tales) (FT commission) - 15’
Nyman, Michael

  - Yellow Beach - 7’
  - The Photography of Chance (2004) (UK premiere) - 15'
  - Time Will Pronounce - 20’
  - Poczatek (World premiere) - 15’'

Ó Dálaigh, Seán - Ruainne (World Premiere)
O’Leary, Martin - Bluescape (FT commission) - 8'
Osborne, Nigel - The Piano Tuner - 15’
Ó Súilleabháin, Mícheál - Fidelio Unsung (FT commission) - 10’

Ó Súilleabháin, Mícheál and Mercier, Mel - must be more, Crispy! (World Premiere, piano trio version)
Panufnik, R - Around 3 Corners (1996) - 9'
Pärt, Arvo - Mozart - Adagio (1995 rev. 2005) - 5’

Perkin, Sam – Freakshow (FT commission)
Piazzolla, Astor

   - Revolucionario
   - Primavera Portena  
Powell, Jonathan - Vainglory (1996) (World premiere) - 8’
Ravel - Piano Trio 
Rawsthorne, A - Trio (1962) - 16'
Reeves, Camden - Starlight Squid  
Resch, Gerald - Funf Versuche nach Italo Calvino (UK premiere)  
Rihm, W - Fremde Szenen I - III   
Riley, Colin - Body of Edges - 15'
Rorem, Ned - Spring Music  - 27’
Ruehr, Elena - Blackberries   
Rzewski, Frederic - Trio (1998)   
Salem, Peter - Windhover - 15’
Sawer, David - Riddle - 1'

Saxton, Robert - Fantasy Pieces (FT commission)
Schlepper - Connolly, Benedict - Ekstase II (World premiere)
Schnittke, A - Trio  
Schoenberg, A - Verklarte Nacht - 26’
Shostakovich, D - Trio No.2 in D minor, Op. 67

Shostakovich, D - Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok Op. 127(with soprano)   
Schuller, Gunther - Piano Trio 1984
Sciarrino, Salvatore

   - Trio No. 1 (UK premiere)
   - Trio No. 2 - 15'
Sculthorpe, P

   - From Irkanda III – 6’
   - Night Song (1995) - 6'
Sheng, Bright - Four Movements (1990) - 11'
Sierra, Arlene - Truel  
Skempton, Howard

   - Sotto Voce 
   - Piano Trio (1995) - 3'
Smalley, R - Trio - 14'
Spratt, Alasdair - Mind Restless Seeking 

Staud, Johannes Maria - Fur Balint Andras Varga (UK Premiere)

Stevenson, Rohan - Piano Trio No. 2 (Movie Demons)

Styles, Luke – Memories of a Foreign Land Called Home (FT commission)
Takemitsu, Toru - Between Tides (UK Premiere) - 18'
Talbot, Joby - The Dying Swan - Suite - 35'
Tcherepnin - Trio

Terranova, Daniela - Black ink on rice paper

Thompson, Shirley J. – Sunbeam (Ilanga)
Turnage, Mark A - A Short Procession - 9'
Toovey, A - Shining Forth (1987) - 15'
Torke, Michael - The Harlequins are Looking at You (1985) - 12'

Vallely, Niall – Swaggering for uilleann pipes and piano trio (FT commission)
Volans, Kevin - Trio (2005) (UK Premiere)  

Volans, Kevin – Piano Trio 3 Le Tombeau des Regrets (FT commission)
Watkins, Huw - Lullaby - 3'
Weekes, James - Honey Celebration  
Weigold, Peter - Piano Trio (World Premiere revised version)
Weir, Judith

   - Piano Trio (1998)  
   - Piano Trio Two (2003 - 4) - 15’
Williams, Graham - Kafka Fragments  

Williams, Adrian – Piano Trio
Wilson, Ian

   - Seven Last Words
   - First Last Words 
Wilson, Scott - head, neck, chest, four, five, six, thing for Piano Trio and Electronics (FT commission)
Wood, Hugh - Trio (1984)
Woolrich, John

   - Toward the Black Sky (1997) (London Premiere) - 10'
   - The night will not draw on - 10’
Wuorinen, Charles - Trio (1983) - 11'

Xiaogang, Ye – Piano Trio
Yun, Isang - Trio - 11'

Yusuf, Kemal – Moving Rags
Zemlinsky - Trio Op. 3  
Zev Gordon, Michael - In the Middle of Things (FT commission)
Zimmerman, B A - Presence
Ziporyn, Evan - Typical Music (UK Premiere) - 25’
Zorn, John - Amour Fou - 20'

Zorn, John - Ghosts

CLASSICAL

Arensky - Trio in D minor, Op. 32
Arnold, Malcolm - Piano Trio, Op. 54

Beach, Amy – Piano Trio, Op. 150
Beethoven

   - Trio in E flat major, Op. 1 No. 1
   - Trio in D major, Op. 70 No. 1 (Ghost)
   - Trio in B flat major, Op. 97 (Archduke)
Beethoven - Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello and Orchestra

Op. 56
Bloch, E - 3 Nocturnes
Brahms

   - Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
   - Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87
Bridge - Phantasie Trio
Chausson, E - Trio Op. 3

Clarke, Rebecca – Piano Trio
Copland, A

   - Vitebsk 1929
   - Study on a Jewish Theme
Debussy

   - La Mer (arr. Sally Beamish)
   - Trio in G
Dvorak

   - Trio in E minor Op. 90 (Dumky)
   - Trio in F minor, Op 65
Faure - Trio Op. 120
Franck - Trio Op. 1

Harty, Hamilton - Two Fantasiestücke for Piano Trio Op. 3

Haydn - Trio in G major Hob XV.25 (Gipsy Rondo)

Janácek, Leos (arr. Till Alexander Körber) – Kreutzer-Sonate

Korngold, E - Trio Op. 1

Lekeu - Piano Trio

Liszt - Symphonic Poem from Orphee (arr. Saint - Saens)

Martin, Frank – Trio sur des mélodies populaires irlandaises

 

Martinu, Bohuslav – Piano Trio No. 3 in C major

Mendelssohn - Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49

Moeran - Piano Trio in D Minor

Mozart

   - Divertimento KV 254

   - Trio in B flat major KV 502

   - Trio in E major KV 542- Trio in G major KV 564

Rachmaninoff - Trio Elegiaque Op. 9

Ravel - Piano Trio

Saint-Saens - Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 92

Satie - (arr. John White) Le Piege de Méduse  (FT commission)

Satie (arr. John White) – Je te veux (FT commission)

Satie (arr. John White) – Prière pour le salut de mon âme (from Messe des pauvres) (FT commission)

Schnittke, A - Trio

Schoenberg, A - Verklarte nacht (arr. Steuermann)

Schubert 

    -  Notturno D 897

    -  Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat D 898

    -  Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat D 900

    -  Sonatensatz in B flat D 28

Schumann, Clara – Piano Trio

Schumann, Robert

   - Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63

   - Trio No. 2 in F major, Op. 80

   - Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110

Shostakovitch, D

   - Trio No.2 in D minor, Op. 67

   - Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok Op. 127 (with soprano)

Sibelius, Jean – Piano Trio in C major

Smetana - Trio in G minor Op. 15

Stanford - Piano Trio No 3 in A Major Op 158

Trimble, Joan - Phantasy Trio

Zemlinsky - Trio, Op. 3

POP ARCHIVE

James Hesford - Sound like Skunk (Brecker Brothers) (FT commission)
Richard Michael - Miles Reflects (FT commission)
Frank Lyons - Birdland (FT commission)
Darius Brubeck - Tugela Rail  

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