Greco / Parra / Paus / Trio Musicalis - Mosaicos Music CD

Mosaicos is a cross-section of today's musical creation in Spain. The Musicalis Trio is contributing to the ongoing configuration of our artistic history, helping generate a new and valuable repertoire for the instrumental combination of clarinet (especially the bass clarinet), violin and piano. On this map of Spanish stylistic diversity at the commencement of the 21st century we travel from the sonic exaltation of Parra to the timbral speculation of Sánchez-Verdú, passing on the way the luminosity of Torres, the eclecticism of Greco and the lyricism of Paús. The added value of the members of the Musicalis Trio starts with their rigorous and enthusiastic interpretation of this music, demonstrating their exceptional capacity of adaptation to each language. The Musicalis Trio was formed in 2008 within the ambit of the Spanish National Orchestra. During the past 15 years of shared work and intensive concert activity, it's three members (Eduardo Raimundo, clarinet and bass clarinet; Mario Pérez, violin; Francisco Escoda, piano) have forged the group's identity, whose fundamental purpose is "to re-create the chamber music of history's great composers." In fact, on their first CD, Contrasts, they imparted their personal vision of five key works for the atypical combination of clarinet, violin and piano, all of them written in the first decades of the 20th century: the suite from Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (1919), the "Adagio" from Alban Berg's Chamber Concerto (1925), Khachaturian's Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (1932), Milhaud's Suite for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (1936) and Bartok's Contrasts (1938).