Wolpe: Trio - Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965

Trio of the Group for Contemporary Music at Columbia University: Harvey Sollberger, flute; Charles Wuorinen, piano; Joel Krosnik, cello Aeolian Chamber Players: Lewis Kaplan, violin; David Gilbert, flute; Lloyd Greenberg, clarinet; Jacob Maxin, pianoThis Trio, composed in 1963, is an excellent example of Stefan Wolpe's late period. In it may be found more or less traditional constructs merged with contemporary attitudes and orderly harmonic processes and thorough development of material combined with logically discontinuous methods of articulating them. One of Wolpe's techniques is his use of unordered pitch groups which, like a scale in tonal music, function as the source for melodic and harmonic events. In the first movement of this Trio, two groups of four pitches are set off against each other, and are projected in constantly changing rhythms, as lines or chords in large or small compasses. The pitches within each unit are continually being reordered to expose every facet of the gr