(SW1054)

In the 1st movement, the three instruments are engaged in a conversation, so to speak, in which at first there seems to be a brittle, rhythmically quite jagged, almost stammering disagreement among the participants, until they finally come to terms in the main part. And then all the complex rhythmic overlays and shifts result in one of those striking moments that are so typical of Christian Ridil's works, namely when everything suddenly begins to really "swing". Then, for a defined period of time, an almost jazz-like "drive" determines the musical events, until everything seems to fray again and falls back into the brittle discord of the beginning.

The 2nd movement, “Mesto”, i.e. titled “sad”, is characterized by long, drawn-out passages in which almost painful harmonic friction arises through gradual linear progression in microintervals deliberately distorted into impurity, which alternate with toneless episodes in which only breathing or puffing noises of the players or almost percussively used key noises predominate.

Finally, movement 3 is, taken by itself, structured in three parts. In this case, that means that two fast, rather light, dance-like parts frame a slow, funeral march-like middle section entitled “lugubre”.

All in all, the work, which lasts about a quarter of an hour, is as elaborate as it is associatively witty, and in any case a valuable contemporary contribution to the genre of the wind trio.

Martin Schmeck

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