First Edition Piano Trio Score and Parts-Composed for the wedding of his sister Sarah to Samuel Fulton Beatty on May 4 1940 in Barber's New York apartment.The two-minute piece makes a great prelude to any concert both as a novelty and as a well-craftedcomposition with some beautiful soaring melodies and intricate counterpoint. Late Intermediate Level.

Score and Parts.Commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centre. First performance 19 May 1998 Merkin Concert Hall New York City.Quoting Weir: 'In my previous work I have often enjoyed inventing titles whichattempt to encapsulate the particular world of each composition but this fifteen minutes piece for violin cello and piano is simply entitled Piano Trio . What is the reason for this unusually abstract description? I thinkperhaps that in this piece the many external impressions which habitually make up my musical world have become too numerous and too personal to be pinned down in the space of few words that a composition title allows.The firstmovement began in my mind with impressions of Venice as relayed in Schubert's song Gondelfahrer; the crisp midnight air the dark choppy water the bells tolling the gondolier alone in emotional turmoil. Schubert's world is aplace where I can find constant inspiration and strength.The second movement recalls a time when I was called from a phone box in Africa. At one moment I was alone in my room the next (or so it seemed in my imagination)surrounded by light heat and sudden energy and activity. The movement is not however an evocation of African music; it takes the form of a scherzo and trio which collide with each other at the movement's conclusion.Thethird movement formed in my mind whilst I was reading some Gaelic poetry from the Hebridean island of Lewis on Scotland 's far flung Atlantic fringe. I was thinking of the bleached white beaches in that part of the world whereevery object lying on the sand - a washed-up bottle or a bird's skeleton - is a major event in a deserted landscape. The same might be said of this short set of musical variations where melodic fragments are laid out with plentyof space around them clear and plain for everyone to hear.

The composer writes...Doruntine is the name of a princess in Ismail Kadare's novel of the same name which takes place in thirteenth century Albania. Doruntine who in the piece is represented by the Cello's melody is taken through various strange musical landscapes before she finally finds her way home.The piece was composed 1994 and is dedicated to the Joachim Piano Trio.

En grec, syn signifie ' union ', et aesthesis ' sensation '. La synesthésie est un phénomène neurologique qui associe plusieurs sens. Certains compositeurs célèbres, comme Alexandre Skriabine, en étaient victimes et voyaient à l'écoute de différents sons des changements dans la perception des couleurs. Aussi, au-delà de la correspondance entre les sens, j'ai souhaité imaginer une oeuvre qui pourrait faire correspondre différents arts. Dans ce trio pour violon, violoncelle et piano, composé entre 2009 et 2010, j'ai tenté d'utiliser des techniques de peinture et de les appliquer à la Musique. Ainsi, les mouvements portent tous des noms empruntés à l'Art pictural : Clair-obscur, Eau forte, Pointillisme,? J'ai également associé chaque extrait de l'oeuvre à de la poésie, qui à mon sens permet à la fois de comprendre ce qui a pu me motiver à l'écriture de cette pièce, mais aussi de rejoindre une certaine forme d'art total, combinant différents moyens d'expression à la fois.Création du 1er juin 2013, durant les Samedis Classiques de Cornillon-Confoux, par le Trio Métabole. / Trios Piano, Violon, Violoncelle