related works

Two Sides : for alto saxophone, cello and piano / Joey Roukens

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: sax-a vc pf

Trio : voor piano, viool en violoncello / Henk van der Vliet

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano trio (piano, violin, cello)
Scoring: pf vl vc

Trio : for violin, cello and piano / Sem Dresden

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano trio (piano, violin, cello)
Scoring: vn vc pf

Sarabande : Version for violin, cello (or bassoon) and piano / Isidora Žebeljan

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano trio (piano, violin, cello)
Scoring: vn vc/fg pf

composition

Piano trio : 'Shadows and bells' / Joey Roukens

Other authors:
Roukens, Joey (Composer)
Description:
Before I started writing this piece, I had acquired a stack of scores of piano trios from the great romantic tradition - Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann, etc. Amsterdam, the carillon sounds of the Oude Kerk blew into my room through the open window. In my head these bell sounds then began to mix with the romantic music I was studying and it started to sound alienating, and the piece was born.

The piece therefore often contains bell-like sounds and 'shades' of romanticism. These shadows can be heard as a kind of distorted memories of the past, embedded in an alienating, contemporary context. In doing so, the piece follows an erratic ABABA trajectory - the A sections contain the bell sounds and are slow, carried and very dramatic at the climactic moments; the B sections, on the other hand, are energetic, playful, rhythmic and sometimes even humorous.