| Hudebni rozhledy March 2021 | Dvorák Piano Trios vol. 1 CD Review [...] This year, the album [of the Trio des Alpes] was released with music by Antonín Dvo?ák. We are lucky that it appeared in the editorial office of Hudební rozhledy, because the performance is, to say it with one word, surprising. The first composition is the Trio with piano n. 3 in F minor op. 65 and the listener is pleased since the first notes. For me, the Allegro ma non troppo begins in a sublime way, with a heroic tone, while the typical melodicity of Dvo?ák prevails in the second minute, when moments of dance and poetic moments all resonate in a magnificently synchronized dynamic, especially in the extraordinary virtuosity performance of each voice of the trio, which together form an unusually energetic module. In the second movement, the ensemble does not move away from its energetic nature, but is pleasantly softer and more stable over time. The following Poco adagio is built in effective contrast with the diminishing of vigor, and vice versa with a more pronounced presentation of the virtuoso individuality of the interpreters. [...] The Finale is a synthesis of the interpretative characteristics put in place until that time. The trio is emphatic in accents, caring over time, convincing in the instrumental presentation and extraordinary in the overall sound. (Rafael Brom) |
| Musica November 2016 | 20th-Century Women Composer CD Review [...] A rendere irrinunciabile questo disco e` anche la prova splendida degli esecutori, l’italo-svizzero Trio des Alpes. Serissimo nella preparazione (del Trio della Clarke, pubblicato postumo, i musicisti sono andati a confrontare il manoscritto per rassicurarsi su alcune incongruenze, poi emendate, riscontrate nell’edizione a stampa), il Trio des Alpes non si lascia imbrigliare da nessuna costrizione formalistica, andando ben al di la` di una lettura curiosa di questi pezzi negletti, dei quali impone, anzi, un’interpretazione con cui dovranno inevitabilmente fare i conti tutti coloro (e speriamo che siano numerosi) che si volgeranno a queste musiche degnissime d’essere conosciute e riascoltate. Equilibrio ed energia, slancio fantastico e poeticita` non timorosa di affettuosi indugi, bellezza dei suoni e tensione espositiva, precisione esecutiva e liberta` dell’espressione, sono il combinato vincente delle virtu` rare di questo splendido ensemble. (Bernardo Pieri) |
| Donne della realtà (blog) April 2016 | 20th-Century Women Composer CD - (click to read) È il disco delle sorprese questo “20th Century Women Composers” pubblicato dalla Dynamic di Genova con protagonisti il Trio des Alpes e il soprano Lorna Windsor. La prima riguarda i contenuti, le opere di tre donne musiciste, l’inglese Rebecca Clarke (1886 – 1979), la francese Lili Boulanger (1893 – 1918) e l’americana Amy Beach (1867 – 1944), la seconda, la strepitosa qualità dell’interpretazione da parte del pianista Corrado Greco, della violinista Mirjam Tschopp e del violoncellista Claude Hauri, componenti del trio italo-elvetico fondato nel 2010 e impegnato in una intensa attività concertistica in Europa e Stati Uniti, ma anche del soprano italo-britannico Lorna Windsor, allieva del grande basso Hans Hotter nonché di una delle leggende del ‘900 canoro, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.[...] Un’operazione altamente meritoria questa del Trio del Alpes e un disco da consigliare non soltanto ai curiosi ma anche ai musicisti in cerca di idee. (Mario Chiodetti) |
| Gramophone.co.uk September 2015 | 20th-Century Women Composer CD Review The fine Swiss-Italian Trio des Alpes thoughtfully assess a variable collection of [these women composers] chamber works. Beach is notably conservative and her 1938 String Trio, once past a provocative cascade of whole-tone scales at the start, rapidly settles into post-Brahmsian rectitude. She is better represented by the songs with ensemble accompaniment[...]. Boulanger’s two pieces were written shortly before her tragic death aged only 24; the first, Un soir triste, sustains a series of quietly shifting, unresolved dissonances over its compelling 11-minute span. Clarke’s 1921 Trio is the real revelation, a work of almost Bartókian asperity, tautly controlled and haunted by a reiterated, jabbing monotone that never lets the music or the listener settle. It also gets by far the best performance – fluent, committed and wonderfully energetic throughout. |
| thewholenote.com June 2015 | 20th-Century Women Composer CD Review This is inspired programming, with the works on this disc thoroughly complementing each other. All three composers represented here were born within a quarter-century of each other. They each write in an expressive style that marks the transition from romanticism to modernism. None are musical innovators. But as women, they are rightly regarded as pioneers today. Amy Beach, who was born in Boston in 1867, is the most well-known composer here. Her Trio for violin, cello and piano is a complex, virtuosic work, which ends with a memorable flourish. Swiss soprano Lorna Windsor’s performance of four art songs are engaging enough to make me want to explore more of Beach’s enormous song repertoire. English composer and violist Rebecca Clarke enjoyed what she called her “one whiff of success” when she introduced her Viola Sonata in 1919, and then, soon after, this lovely Trio. Flamboyant, intense, driven, this is an exciting work, especially as performed by the Swiss-based Trio des Alpes. The youngest composer here, Frenchwoman Lili Boulanger (sister of the influential teacher and composer Nadia), was only 25 when she died in 1918. The Trio des Alpes brings out the moody expressivity of her two contrasting pieces for piano trio, the first, D’un soir triste, plaintive, the second, D’un matin de printemps, exuberant. These fine pieces are too rarely heard, making this thoroughly enjoyable disc particularly significant. |
| Repubblica April 2015 | 20th-Century Women Composer CD Review Il programma pesca autrici non inflazionate (Rebecca Clarcke, Lili Boulanger, Amy Beach), delineando una creatività aggiornata e priva di soggezione. (Angelo Foletto) |