Trio Fibonacci
The Fibonacci Trio starts with Harvey's Piano Trio to provide an appealing thematic anthology of music for small chamber ensembles from recent decades.
Jonathan Harvey wrote his Piano Trio in 1971 especially for some musician friends. Since it was a very close group, he was bold enough to compose passages in which one or two of the musicians play at an independent tempo at odds with the others.
Fibonacci also selected two piano trios by Salvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947), the 'il simpatico' of the Italian avant-garde. His intimist music, closely linked to timbres and breathing, is constructed on the principle of micro-variations in sound structures. The Fibonacci cellist and pianist play the 1974 'To the master - two improvisations' by Sciarrino's compatriot Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988). Since the nineteen-fifties Scelsi has developed a new musical concept. Under the influence of eastern religions, he considered the sound to be 'the cosmic force from which everything originates' and saw himself no longer as a composer but as a medium who revealed the message of a transcendent reality by means of meditation and improvisation. In order to keep the music he had 'received', Scelsi recorded all his improvisations on tape and then transcribed them for various instruments. Lastly, Fibonacci will be playing 'Autumn Voices' by the British James Wood (b. 1953), a 2001 work for violin and electronics based on Verlaine's famous lines 'Les sanglots longs Des Violons De l'automne'. Wood here musically depicts the extraordinary transformation of the leaves in autumn by means of a gradually evolving harmonic field based on the spectrum of the four open strings on the violin.
Works
Trio (1971)
Trio nr 1 (1979)
Trio nr 2 (1987)
To the master voor cello en piano
'Autumn voices' voor viool en electronics (2001)