Milking Darkness - Delta Piano Trio - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

A 50 years old birthday hommage to one of today leading composers: Lera Auerbach. The disc is focused on two Piano Trios in world premiere recordings. The monumental Third Piano Trio is dedicated to the Delta Trio. Delta Trio were already much acclaimed for their first recording on Challenge Classics.

If you mix every colour of paint together, you end up with black. Similarly, the darkness in the music of Lera Auberbach (b. 1973) consists of every imaginable shade of colour, from pitch darkness to dazzling light. The composer thus captures the mercuriality of life and the human psyche. Her music sometimes also depicts a dance with the inescapable: the struggle against Fate, the inexorable passing of time, an unattainable dream – but always with black humour and a dark though starlit sky. ‘Many composers create something “beautiful”, outside human reality,’ according to the Delta Piano Trio, who worked hard with Auberbach in preparing for this album. ‘Instead, Lera’s music is raw as well as human. She never eases up on what she wants to express, which would rob the music of all its fervour.’

It was Auerbach’s own idea to call this album Milking Darkness. The Delta Piano Trio feels that it is a fitting description not only of her work as a whole but also of the intense effect her music can have.

Tracklist

1. Lonely Suite - Ballet For a Lonely Violinist, Op 70: I.
2. Lonely Suite - Ballet For a Lonely Violinist, Op 70: Ii.
3. Lonely Suite - Ballet For a Lonely Violinist, Op 70: Iii.
4. Lonely Suite - Ballet For a Lonely Violinist, Op 70: Iv.
5. Lonely Suite - Ballet For a Lonely Violinist, Op 70: V.
6. Lonely Suite - Ballet For a Lonely Violinist, Op 70: Vi.
7. Piano Trio No. 4
8. Milking Darkness
9. Three Dances In the Old Style, Op. 54: I. Andantino Scherzan
10. Three Dances In the Old Style, Op. 54: Ii. Andante
11. Three Dances In the Old Style, Op. 54: Iii. Andante
12. Piano Trio No. 3: I. Grandioso
13. Piano Trio No. 3: Ii. Andante Libero
14. Piano Trio No. 3: Iii. Adagio Religioso
15. Piano Trio No. 3: Iv. Allegro Brutale

Label: Challenge Classics | Origin: Holland

📌 Works By Lera Auerbach / Ak 23