Universal Edition - Julian Yu – Prelude and Not-a-Fugue | for piano trio

Julian Yu
*02.09.1957

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Julian Yu
Prelude and Not-a-Fugue | for piano trio

Work Details
Year of composition: 1999
Scored for: for piano trio
Composer: Julian Yu
Instrumentation details: violin; violoncello; pno
Licensing: Licensing Request
World Première
Location: Melbourne Concert Hall Melbourne / Australia
Date: 24.02.2000
Main Soloists: David Pereira, vlc, Ian Munro, pn/ harp, Jane Peters, vln
Work Introduction

The short piano trio Prelude and Not-a-Fugue is one of Yu’s many homages to Johann Sebastian Bach. Although he quotes the German master’s works many times, Yu’s music never loses his own autonomous idiom; critiques of the premiere performance emphasise the composition’s brilliant [...]

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