Mirrors – 21st Century American Piano Trios

Contents

Cohen, G: Around The Cauldron

Moya, R: Ghostwritten Variations

Higdon: Love Sweet (with Sarah Shafer soprano)

Belimova, S: Titania And Her Suite

Cooper, W D: An Den Wassern Zu Babel

Ciupinski: The Black Mirror

Lysander Piano Trio

Itamar Zorman violin • Michael Katz cello • Liza Stepanova piano

Celebrating Lysander Piano Trio’s 10th anniversary in 2020, they present their FHR début with a new album featuring première recordings of new American piano trios commissioned or premièred by the ensemble. The works included on this album, with their richness of styles and origins, provide an exciting and optimistic glimpse into music being written for piano trio today. Of particular note is ‘Love Sweet’ written by Grammy Award winning composer Jennifer Higdon and featuring the brilliant soprano Sarah Shafer. The Lysander Piano Trio has been praised by The Strad for its “incredible ensemble, passionate playing, articulate and imaginative ideas and wide palette of colors” and by The Washington Post for “an uncommon degree of heart-on-the-sleeve emotional frankness.