Navarro Trio

The Navarro Trio - Tammie Dyer, Jill Rachuy Brindel and Marilyn Thompson

 

Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 76         Dmitri Shostakovich

 

Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 60 (the "Dumky")     Antonin Dvořák

 

Featuring the premiere of Brian Wilson's composition "Elements: Fire, Air, Water and Earth for Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano", with special guest, Roy Zajac on clarinet.

 

The premiere of Elements: Fire, Air, Water and Earth for Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano, composed by Brian S. Wilson

 

The piece was commissioned by the Raif Family Fund.

 

Wilson says "This as my climate action piece but with an angle. G-d created all the elements of good and bad in the world including volcanos, fire, floods, drought etc.  Just as G-d created the inclination for good and bad in all people.

 

The title refers to a passage from Mishneh Torah book one Yesodei haTorah (The Laws Which Are the Foundations of the Torah by Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides, also referred to as the Rambam where the four bodies or elements are enumerated:

These four bodies: fire, wind (air), water, and earth are the fundamental [elements] of all the creations below the sky. Everything that exists - [be it] man, beast, fowl, crawling creature, fish, plant, metal, precious stone, pearl, building stone, mountain, or lump of earth - the body of all these [entities] is a combination of these four fundamental [elements].

Thus, all the bodies which are found below the sky, with the exception of these four bodies, are a combination of matter and form,¹ and their matter is a combination of these fundamental [elements].

The main motive – F – A – Bb – E represents each of the four bodies; 

F          Fire

A         Air

Bb       Water

E          Earth

These four elements provided inspiration for all “elements” of the piece; melodic, harmonic and texture and form.