Trio Des Lyres

Livsstråk / Paths of Life

Trio des Lyres was formed 1984 in Paris, when the violist Anna Lindahl, freelancing chamber musician Sylvie Altenburger and the cellist and composer Chichan Larson, like Sylvie with an intensive past in the group for contemporary music ”Ensemble Contemporain”, met each other.

Their common interest was to play baroque and classical music on authentic instruments or with an authentic approach.

On this CD is included music by Louis Couperin, suite in A-minor, Ludwig van Beethoven, Trio in C-minor, Op.9:3, Luciano Berio,Sequenza VIII, Iannis Xenakis, Ikhoor, Richard Scott, Lost in the Funhouse and Chrichan Larson, Cordes.

Trio des Lyres and the film “Livsstråk” (paths of life) was an encounter with a new generation of musicians and composers, a presentation of old music in a new manner, and, to use the words of the trio themselves: “When we began playing contemporary music we discovered new worlds of sound. We also discovered that sounds which we had been accustomed to call ugly, could be beautiful. We discovered that it could be liberating to balance on the border of the possibilities of the instrument…”

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    • Suite en la mineur Music: Louis Couperin
      • 1.
        Prelude à l'imitation de M. Froberger
        6'26
      • 2.
        Allemande l'amiable
        2'20
      • 3.
        Courante la Mignonne
        1'33
      • 4.
        Seconde courante
        2'04
      • 5.
        Sarabande
        2'57
      • 6.
        La Piémontaise
        1'32
    • Cordes Music: Chrichan Larson
      • 7.
        I
        8'09
      • 8.
        II
        4'42
      • 9.
        III
        3,25
    • Trio C-minor Op. 9:3 Music: Ludwig van Beethoven
      • 10.
        Allegro con spirito
        6'10
      • 11.
        Adagio con espressione
        5'15
      • 12.
        Scherzo: Allegro molto e vivace
        2'59
      • 13.
        Finale: Presto
        4'17
    • Ikhoor Music: Iannis Xenakis
      • 14.
        Ikhoor
        10'07
    • Sequenza VIII per violino solo Music: Luciano Berio
      • 15.
        Sequenza VIII per violino solo
        12'33
  • Total playtime 75'40

Digital // CAP 21371 // Contemporary // Releasedate: 1989-01-01 00:00:00]