Manuel Maria Ponce:  Trio para violin, viola y violoncello
Allegro non troppo, espressivo
Menuetto
Canción Rondo scherzoso


Luis Bacalov: String Trio (2010)
Work dedicated to Trio Broz
Moderato
Allegro
Allegro vivace


Heitor Villa-Lobos: Trio (1945)
Allegro
Andante
Scherzo
Allegro preciso e agitato

Program Note

Manuel Maria Ponce (Fresnillo, 8 December 1886 - Ciudad de Mexico, 24 April 1948), Mexican composer of the first half of the twentieth century, deepened his musical training in Europe, studying piano with Martin Krause in Berlin, composition with Marco Enrico Bossi in Bologna and then in his fourth decade with Paul Dukas in Paris. His production, variously inspired by the Indo-Mexican folklore, has contributed to the musical nationalism in Mexico, of whom he is considered the founder. His Trio para violin, viola and cello, dedicated to three siblings - Cecile, Carlos and Carlitos Prieto - presented clearly his style, structurally focused on traditional European music (the first movement is in sonata form, the second movement is a Minuet , the final one Rondò) but thematically inspired by Hispanic-Americans motifs: good example is the third moviment, Canción, where the three instruments sing alternately the languid theme of a serenade.

Professor of  "Composing film music" at the Accademia di Siena Chigiana, Professor at the Academy of Cinema MULTIMEDIA ACT at Cinecittà in Rome, Luis Bacalov (Buenos Aires 1933) is one of the most distinguished living composers. Born in Argentina and naturalized Italian, in the late'70s he collaborated with Federico Fellini for the music for the film City of women (after the sudden death of Nino Rota). In 1995 he won the Oscar Award for the music for the film The Postman. During his career Bacalov has worked with many directors, among them Pier Paolo Pasolini, Damiano Damiani, Ettore Scola, Fernando Di Leo, Franco Giraldi. Part of the theme of its soundtrack written for the spaghetti-western The great duel was used by Quentin Tarantino in Kill Bill.
Currently he is writing a string trio for Trio Broz, his first work for this ensamble.

Heitor Villa-Lobos (Rio de Janeiro, March 5 1887 - Rio de Janeiro, 17 November 1959) wrote the trio for strings in Rio de Janeiro, after his return home. He wrote 17 quartets for strings, but only a trio, in which he experienced the distribution of his dense rhythmically complex writing  on only three instruments. His Trio was born in the same period of the Quartet No. 8 and 9 and the Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 and 9. The comparison with Bach leads him to a strong polyphonic intention and to the reconstructionof Brazilian rhythms through the overlap of separate actions by the various voices. Dreaming and sound impalpable atmoseferes  alternate with exhilarating passages where, more than in the quartets, he goes to the border of his musical conception.