Complete Piano Trios : Finisterra Trio

DARON HAGEN (b. 1961) : Complete Piano Trios

Piano Trio No. 3, ‘Wayfaring Stranger’ (2006)
Piano Trio No. 1, ‘Trio Concertante’ (1984)
Piano Trio No. 2, ‘J’entends’ (1986)
Piano Trio No. 4, ‘Angel Band’ (2007)

Finisterra Trio:
Kwan Bin Park, violin - Kevin Krentz, cello - Tanya Stambuk, piano

Recorded at The Seasons Hall, Yakima, Washington, USA, from 24th-27th April, 2008

‘To say that Daron Hagen is a remarkable musician,’ wrote Ned Rorem in Opera News, ‘is to underrate him. Daron is music.’ Each of Hagen’s piano trios has a particular significance. The first, Trio Concertante, won Columbia University’s Bearns Prize for Chamber Music; the second, J’entends, was inspired by Nadia Boulanger’s final words ‘J’entends une musique san commencement et sans fin’ (‘I hear a music without beginning or end’), as well as by a Degas painting and Beethoven’s Great Fugue; the third, Wayfaring Stranger, recalls the memory of Hagen’s brother and the folk melody he so loved; and the fourth, Angel Band, pays tribute to the prodigious violinist Joyce Ritchie Strosahl. ( NAXOS )