Ensemble Epomeo

String Trio

News and Reviews

Fanfare Magazine on Brahms- Serenade, Schoenberg- Verkl

a competitive performance with no technical weaknesses, a taut interpretation, and all the more impressive for being recorded live

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The Classical Reviewer- String Trios by Schnittke, Penderecki, Kurtag and Weinberg

This is music that really tears at the soul, particularly in this performance.

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CD Review: The Strad on Schnittke, Penderecki, Kurt

CD Review: The Strad on Schnittke, Penderecki, Kurt

..playing with a remarkable intensity and elegant assurance throughout....They expertly summon vivid sound images for a selection of miniatures from Kurt

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CD REVIEW- CLASSICAL CD REVIEWS ON VERKLARTE NACHT AND BRAHMS SERENADE NO. 1

The textures are appropriately bass heavy, and the two cellos dominate, but every line comes through with exceptional clarity. This gives the piece a new profile, with the complex but now clear counterpoint driving the music and leading the ear ...

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CD Review- “Verbunkos” on Complete String Trios of Hans Gal and Hans Krasa

CD Review- Verbunkos on Complete String Trios of Hans Gal and Hans Krasa

It is hard to think of composers of perhaps insufficiently recognized importance in the chamber music canon such as Hans G

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Concert Review- ConcertoNet reviews Epomeo at Tenri

"the wonderful trio of the evening, Ensemble Epomeo...from this entrancing group, the most dexterous execution..."

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CD Review- Gramophone Magazine on Gal/Krasa Complete String Trios

"Ensemble Epomeo provide ravishing accounts of both Gal works, fully in sympathy with the idiom... A splendid disc I cannot get enough of."

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CD Review- RECORDING OF THE MONTH: MusicWeb International, Steve Arloff on Gal/Krasa Complete String Trios

The disc leaves you feeling profoundly moved as well as drained and I can hardly imagine how it must feel to play such music. This is an extremely important musical document on all counts as it introduces us to two ...

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Scotia Festival 2013 in review- Ensemble Epomeo Recital

Ensemble Epomeo is a first-rate trio with such mastery of both the familiar and the new (to us at least) to give us confidence in the music and to seed a desire to hear more of it, more of composers ...

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CD Review- Joshua Kosman/SF Chronicle on Gal/Krasa Complete Trios

brilliant revelation, a savage takedown of artistic ideals in which order and luxuriance devolve into chaos. It's a compact, unforgettable masterpiece, and the Ensemble Epomeo - which includes Woods along with violinist Caroline Chin and violist David Yang - ...

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CD Review- Irish Times on Gal/Krasa Complete Trios

"The performances by members of Ensemble Epomeo are highly persuasive."

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CD Review- Colin Anderson, The Classical Source on Gal/Krasa Complete String Trios

CD Review- Colin Anderson, The Classical Source on Gal/Krasa Complete String Trios

Vividly recorded, the three instrumentalists of Ensemble Epomeo ...play superbly individually and as a team and with obvious commitment; clearly Kenneth Woods

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Classical Music Magazine Feature on Ensemble Epomeo

Recordings editor Phil Sommerich interviews the members of Ensemble Epomeo on their new recording of the trios of Hans Gal and Hans Krasa in the current issue of Classical Music Magazine (October 20, 2012). On sale now! Buy a copy ...

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CD Review- International Record Review, Calum MacDonald on Gal/Krasa Complete String Trios

CD Review- International Record Review, Calum MacDonald on Gal/Krasa Complete String Trios

The Passacaglia and Fugue was in fact the last music he completed, and if I think I place this new recording slightly above the Nimbus rival it must be for the treatment of the Passacaglia, much more the substantial of ...

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CD Review: MusicWeb International on Gal/Krasa String Trios

"Sound quality is very good. In their debut recording, Ensemble Epomeo (named after an Ischian mountain) are thoroughly convincing from beginning to end. Their sense of ensemble is democratic, their attention to the score attentive and respectful, and their tone ...

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CD Review- Classical CD Reviews, Gavin Dixon on Gal/Krasa Complete String Trios

CD Review- Classical CD Reviews, Gavin Dixon on Gal/Krasa Complete String Trios

Ensemble Epomeo does both composers a great service with their precise, lively and stylistically astute performances. The clarity in all the textures allows both men

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Somm-0139-CoverRecorded live as part of the Deal Festival, Kent. This disc documents the emerging mastery of two of music history