SCHOENFELD - Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano

PAUL SCHOENFELD - Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (1990) Zachary Gassenheimer, Clarinet Jennifer Armor, Violin Charles Roberts, Piano I. Freylakh 0:09 II. March 4:46 III. Nigun 11:48 IV. Kozatske 16:18 Filmed in Mazzoleni Hall at the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, ON. Program notes from Neil W. Levin: In 1986 the well-known clarinetist David Shifrin invited Schoenfield to compose a trio for clarinet, violin, and piano, but since he was engaged at the time with a number of other projects, it was only in 1990 that he began sketching out the work. For the composer, the endeavor echoed a long-held interest in creating music aimed at celebratory Hassidic gatherings and weekday or weeknight festivities as well as at classical chamber music concert audiences completely outside the Hassidic milieu. This posed an aesthetic challenge, for the music would have to be entertaining and artistic at the same time—precisely the kind o