Israeli Chamber Project | Khachaturian: Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano

Tibi Cziger, Clarinet; Daniel Bard, Violin; Assaff Weisman, Piano
Live performance at Israeli Conservatory, Tel Aviv
June 14th, 2014 Sound: Yaron Aldema Video: Roy Ettinger

[paultah]

Thank you for this performance, wonderful Trio, with Clarinet. Energetic and bright music. Thank you again!

[averelldesouza]

What a riveting performance. Spellbinding! I've started working on this piece and this video is definitely my reference point. Bravo again.

[marcosstuardo]

Thank you for performing and recording this undeservedly under-performed music. Also, congratulations for all you other music videos. Greetings from Cambridge, UK.

[jfthiesen]

Thank YOU for performing also no main-stream - music ! There are lots of
to discover ! I do not like the commercial thinking of the music-industrie !

[gerardbegni]

UNder thhe stalinist dictatorship, the composers were forced to write in line with the so-called 'socialist realism'. But unlike Prokofiev and Chostakovitch, who faced serevre problems, Katchaturian was a convinced communist and probably felt himself comfertable with this political line. We won an incredible number of offdicial prizes and honors. Actually, his music is most often as far from academic musical rules than that of Shostakovitch, but when Shostakovitch expressed an implicit ce ritical vision od the life in USSR, Katchaturian used soms popular or even folkloric tones, as we can hear in this trio, which is indeed sophisticatred under its popular and sometimes dancing tone. Nowadays, the music of Khatchaturian should be heard without taking these political considerations into account, just for what it is.After all, it is not so far from Bartok's 'Contrasts' foir the same combination of instruments, which clearly derives from traditional hungarian songs.