Violin, cello and piano
SKU: BO.B.3713
Composed by Joaquim
Malats. Published by
Editorial de Musica
Boileau (BO.B.3713).
Without doubt,
the most important
chamber music work by
Malats, and one of his
finest compositions, is
his Trio for Violin,
Cello and Piano in B Flat
Major. It was composed in
1898.
Malats
dedicated the Trio to one
of the greatest composers
of all time, Camille
Saint-Saëns, close
personal friend of both
Malats and Granados. An
unknown gem of the
chamber music repertoire,
this Modernist work is
superior in form,
technique and musical
content to similar work
by Granados, Breton,
Chapi and
others.
Malats
had considerable
knowledge and experience
with the trio form. In
1894 at the Sala erard in
Paris he performed four
trios by Beethoven,
Mendelssohn, Godard and
Saint-Saëns with C.
Flesch and Hasselmann.
Given his experiences
with chamber music it is
not surprising that
Malats exhibited such
confidence and security
in writing his Trio
maintaining perfect
balance and dialogue
between the three
instruments which he
achieved through
masterful control of the
formal structure. This
work has a rich harmonic
language and none of the
Nationalist qualities of
his previous pieces.
Instead, it reveals
Malats proximity to then
current European music
yet, at the same time,
exhibits his personal
style and musical
knowledge.
