Epochs & Cultures In Dialogue
Piano Trios by Babajanian, Smetana & Krenek
Trio Contrasti
Nora Shekyan, violin
Alla Kurdiumova, cello
Xuezhao Ma, piano
This debut album of the young Trio Contrasti takes us on a journey through time with a mosaic of sounds in
which epochs and cultures enter into dialogue.
Romanticism gave the art world a new paradigm of thought, when music took the leading position among
the arts and the freedom of formal design, initiated by the content, unfolded. The quest for national selfidentification
and the rapid development of national styles in art began. Romanticism opened the way for
a dialogue between epochs and cultures that continued into the 20th century. Three works that have no
direct connection to each other nevertheless share a common context. When viewed through the prism of a
Romantic paradigm, they can be seen as milestones on the path through epochs and cultures.