Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
2. Streichtrio
(1985)
for violin, viola, violoncello
Duration: 20'
Instrumentation details:
violin
viola
violoncello
Haubenstock-Ramati - 2. Streichtrio for violin, viola, violoncello
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Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
Haubenstock-Ramati: String Trio No. 2 for violin, viola and cello
UE18244
Orchestration: for violin, viola and cello
Type: Spielpartitur
Work introduction
This piece was composed for the 100th birthday of Alban Berg, its dedicatee. It is formed of six attacca movements, the number recalling Berg’s Lyrische Suite. In fact, associations are detectible – with Berg’s presto movement, for instance – but their motion is of course guided by other impulses. Indeed, in the string trio’s very centre, snippets of Berg’s chamber music seem to arise, embedded in ever-changing sonic turns; yet there are no actual quotations from any of Berg’s music whatsoever.