Wolpe, S :: Trio In Two Parts
Stefan Wolpe began composing his Trio in Two Parts for Flute, Cello and Piano in 1963 while on a Guggenheim Fellowship, at the invitation of Harvey Sollberger and Charles Wuorinen. The Trio marks a new stage in Wolpe's late style in which he reduces the density of the music in order to clarify its inner processes and make it more transparent. Described as tonally attractive, witty and expressive.
Wolpe also wrote several comments in the pencil manuscript, some pertaining to events in his life and some directly to the music. In September 1963 Wolpe consulted a physician in Rome about difficulties he was experiencing with physical movement; in the score, over measures 199-200, he wrote: 'The doctor tells me I have a mild case of Parkinson.' Then, over the piano chord on the last eight note of measure 311, he wrote 'Grief...' Wolpe's characteristic physical robustness deteriorated noticeably only after the Trio was completed. After a lengthy struggle with Parkinsonism, Wolpe died in 1972 of complications caused by the disease.
In Wolpe's Trio, the figures grow and contract in continuous motion. Wolpe sought the ideal of chamber music, in which ideas seem to be exchanged and developed spontaneously by the performers. To this end, he used the Trio as an experimentation in reduction; simple events and groups of notes are reduced, light, buoyant; in Wolpe's words, he 'wonders about the un-weight of leaves, and letters, and facial expressions'.
Duration: 16'40. For advanced players.
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