Beethoven/ Atsuko Koga/ Radoslaw Kurek - Confluences

On their new GENUIN release, the internationally award-winning flutist Atsuko Koga and her fellow musicians Georgiy Lomakov (cello) and Radoslaw Kurek (piano) bring together music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Gabriel Fauré, and Charles Martin Loeffler. The trio's airy, free sound with it's unusual combination of instruments is a perfect match for the three works, which represent the piano trio genre in completely different ways: Beethoven's Gassenhauer Trio as an amusing and witty play on stereotypes of it's time, Fauré's late work as a detached and intimate meditation, and finally Loeffler's misty impressionistic poems - an absolute discovery!