Album guide
It Takes Three
- Released
- 2021
- Label
- CDPCD
- Forces
- Piano, Trio
- Personnel
- Charl du Plessis piano, Werner Spies bass, Peter Auret drums
The title celebrates the piano, bass and drums line-up rather than one composer, and the trio uses that flexibility to move from Wagner and Mozart to Pärt and Piazzolla.
Pärt’s spare Für Alina sits at the opposite extreme from Rossini’s bustling aria, showing how widely the same three players can stretch without changing instrumentation.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Pilgrim’s ChorusWagner: Tannhäuser, WWV 70, Act III: Pilgrims’ Chorus
- ReviradoPiazzolla: Revirado
- La CumparsitaNon-classical source
- Requiem K. 626: LacrimosaMozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626: Lacrimosa
- Für AlinaPärt: Für Alina
- SpainNon-classical source
- El ChocloNon-classical source
- Jealousy TangoGade: Jalousie ‘Tango Tzigane’
- Where Can I Go Without You?Non-classical source
- Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 “Moonlight”: I. Adagio sostenutoBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’: I. Adagio sostenuto
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Act I: “Largo Al factotum”Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Act I: ‘Largo al factotum’
- When the Saints Go Marching InNon-classical source