Trio Partout - Play of Colours, Chamber Music for Flute, Viola and Harp

The combination of flute, viola and harp instruments is one of the most un-usual and delightful chamber music combinations, as the Trio Partout brilli-antly proves with their CD Play of Colors. Probably the first work in music history for this line-up was by Claude Debussy, who composed his Sonate pour fl�te, alto et harpe in 1915 under the impact of the beginning of the First World War. Only a year later, the British composer Arnold Bax publis-hed his Elegiac Trio, which acts as a kind of dream sequence through the ostinato harp arpeggios and lyrical elements of viola and flute. Harald Genz-mer is considered one of the key composers of German music after the Se-cond World War, and in 1947 wrote the Trio for flute, viola and harp, whose impressionistic sound images seemingly refer to Debussy. The Austrian composer Johannes Maria Staud uses a variety of modern playing techni-ques in his work Sydenham Music from 2011.