Label: Another Timbre

1993年にWandelweiser派に所属、クラリネット奏者として演奏活動をしつつユニークな作曲アプローチを展開、人気の英コンテンポラリーレーベルAnother Timbreを始め、過去に残している音源はどれも秀逸な内容である大ベテランJurg Frey。2019年に初演されたものの、その後はあまり演奏の機会に恵まれなかったチェロ、ビオラ、バイオリンの為のストリグス曲[String Trio]。この楽曲をAnother Timbreが作品化、Apartment Houseが演奏するという話になり、本人が新たな作曲に取り組み仕上げたという完全版の演奏記録。ミニマル&ドローンファンにも必ずリーチする極上の美しさを保つ47分間。



"I wrote the piece on a commission from the Concertgebouw Brugge, and it was premiered by the Goeyvaerts Trio as part of the 2019 Slow Festival. The trio played the piece again after the festival, but I always had the feeling that it hadn’t yet arrived at its final destination. So when the plan emerged to have Apartment House record the trio, I sat down again and worked some more on the piece. It’s not the first time I’ve re-worked ‘finished’ pieces. This is mainly due to my basic way of working, which knows no compositional system, and the procedure is also unsystematic. This means that everything takes a long time. It’s a slow process of emergence, of omission, of developments. It feels like a slow but natural process which I can’t accelerate at will. And this process leads in the end to a clear, in itself calm architecture of the composition. A calmness that is not least connected with the fact that the compositional questions have now been clarified." - Jurg Frey