℗ 2022 SOMM Recordings
Released | October 21, 2022 |
Duration | 1h 06m 06s |
Record Label | SOMM Recordings |
Catalogue No. | SOMMCD0658 |
Genre | Classical (Chamber) |
Dance!
Minerva Piano Trio, Annie Yim, Michał Ćwiżewicz, Richard Birchall
Available in 192 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Pulcinella Suite, K034b (Arr. R. Birchall for Piano Trio)
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1.1
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I. Sinfonia
Richard Birchall; Igor Stravinsky; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
2:11 | |||
1.2
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II. Serenata
Igor Stravinsky; Richard Birchall; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
3:17 | |||
1.3
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III. Scherzino
Igor Stravinsky; Richard Birchall; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
2:18 | |||
1.4
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IV. Tarantella
Igor Stravinsky; Richard Birchall; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
3:24 | |||
1.5
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V. Toccata
Igor Stravinsky; Richard Birchall; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
2:20 | |||
1.6
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VI. Gavotta
Igor Stravinsky; Richard Birchall; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
1:16 | |||
1.7
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VII. Vivo
Igor Stravinsky; Richard Birchall; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
3:54 | |||
1.8
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VIII. Minuetto
Igor Stravinsky; Richard Birchall; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
4:33 | |||
Contours
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1.9
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I. Moderate
Richard Birchall; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
2:37 | |||
1.10
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II. Fast
Richard Birchall; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
1:50 | |||
1.11
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III. Nocturne - Adagio
Richard Birchall; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
1:51 | |||
1.12
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IV. Fast Waltz
Richard Birchall; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
2:32 | |||
1.13
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Gustave Le Gray (Arr. A. Yim for Piano Trio)
Caroline Shaw; Annie Yim; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
9:55 | |||
My Fleeting Angel
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1.14
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I. Larghetto
Cheryl Frances-Hoad; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
2:04 | |||
1.15
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II. Allegro spiritoso e scherzando
Cheryl Frances-Hoad; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
4:12 | |||
1.16
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III. Allegretto eleganza
Cheryl Frances-Hoad; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
2:45 | |||
Scenes from "Daphnis et Chloé" (After Ravel's M. 57)
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1.17
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I. Nocturne
David Knotts; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
5:20 | |||
1.18
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II. Pantomime
David Knotts; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
5:34 | |||
1.19
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III. Danse guerrière
David Knotts; Minerva Piano Trio; Annie Yim; Michał Ćwiżewicz; Richard Birchall |
4:13 | |||
Digital Booklet
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SOMM Recordings is thrilled to announce Dance!, the debut recording by the Minerva Piano Trio, featuring seminal pieces by Stravinsky and Ravel alongside new work by two British composers, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Richard Birchall, and Pulitzer Prize-winning American, Caroline Shaw. Dance! features two ballet pieces by Stravinsky and Ravel, the former’s Pulcinella Suite arranged by the Minerva’s Richard Birchall, the latter’s Daphnis et Chloé heard in David Knott’s arrangement of three scenes that, says the Trio’s Annie Yim, illustrate “the discovery of love: innocence, awakening, touch, and passion”. Both arrangements are receiving first recordings. Also making their debuts on disc are Birchall’s own Contours, described by Caroline Potter in her informative booklet notes as exploring “the notion and elastic meaning of its title in different ways”, and, in Annie Yim’s arrangement, Caroline Shaw’s Gustave Le Gray. Rooted in a Chopin Mazurka, it eloquently mimics its artist namesake’s facility for poetically layered voices and images. Completing the recital is Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s My Fallen Angel. Inspired by a short story about the dour, deadening domesticity of married life by the poet Sylvia Plath, Potter likens both composer and piece to Olivier Messiaen, hailing the work’s “logic and appealing sound world of its own” and Frances-Hoad as “a sound-colour synaesthete who associates specific colours with sounds”.
192 kHz / 24-bit PCM – SOMM Recordings Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -3.00 -8.67 to -0.71 | -25.01 -30.95 to -19.05 | -21.46 -27.90 to -16.00 | 13 12 to 16 | |
1 | I. Sinfonia | -3.20 | -23.34 | -20.4 | 12 |
2 | II. Serenata | -8.67 | -28.83 | -26.0 | 12 |
3 | III. Scherzino | -0.71 | -19.05 | -16.0 | 12 |
4 | IV. Tarantella | -7.75 | -30.82 | -27.5 | 14 |
5 | V. Toccata | -1.01 | -21.95 | -18.1 | 14 |
6 | VI. Gavotta | -0.86 | -21.23 | -17.6 | 12 |
7 | VII. Vivo | -5.69 | -25.52 | -22.6 | 13 |
8 | VIII. Minuetto | -0.71 | -21.48 | -18.2 | 13 |
9 | I. Moderate | -2.27 | -24.76 | -19.9 | 13 |
10 | II. Fast | -0.71 | -24.17 | -20.8 | 15 |
11 | III. Nocturne - Adagio | -3.46 | -28.65 | -23.4 | 14 |
12 | IV. Fast Waltz | -0.95 | -22.25 | -18.8 | 13 |
13 | Gustave Le Gray (Arr. A. Yim for Piano Trio) | -2.38 | -25.97 | -22.7 | 15 |
14 | I. Larghetto | -6.56 | -29.56 | -25.0 | 13 |
15 | II. Allegro spiritoso e scherzando | -0.71 | -22.01 | -18.9 | 13 |
16 | III. Allegretto eleganza | -4.98 | -27.16 | -23.9 | 14 |
17 | I. Nocturne | -3.37 | -30.95 | -27.9 | 15 |
18 | II. Pantomime | -2.31 | -27.47 | -23.5 | 16 |
19 | III. Danse guerrière | -0.71 | -20.07 | -16.5 | 13 |