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[Interview Revista Musical Catalana]

“Chamber music in Catalonia, in spite of the difficulties it has in developing, has a notable precedent in its groups that have made history, like the mythic Cortot-Thibaud-Casals, or the more recent Trio de Barcelona of the brothers Claret and Albert Attenelle. Following this path, the Trio Kandinsky was born ten years ago with the will to reconciliate the past and the present, to establish sonorous connections above and beyond the times and styles, in order to converge in one musical spirit, which finds in the number three the perfect triangle of communication, composer-performer-audience.”
Revista Musical Catalana, n. 302

[CD Guinjoan]

“The choice of the group (…) to play the program that includes these six collected works couldn’t have been wiser. The Trio Kandinsky (…) is already one of the most solid groups in Spain, with workmanship and quality to compete outside of our borders. In this compact they demonstrate it amply."
José Guerrero Martín ·Scherzo

“ […] third recording of the TK, every time more homogeneous in its sonority and secure in the stylistic solutions of contemporary repertory.”
Germán Gan Quesada · Diverdi

"[...] This indisovable claim to the past and the present that both recordings materialize constitutes something more than a simple discograhic novelty: a true political example of the first order in the ambit of culture. And in many others.”
José Luis Téllez · Scherzo

[CD Schoenberg i Barcelona]

“It is especially noteworthy that the Trio Kandinsky […] has dedicated one of the two discs which commemorate its tenth anniversary to this admirable rarity (Verklärte Nacht). […] their identification with the score is absolute.”
José Luis Téllez · Scherzo

“El Trio Kandinsky reveals itself in this recording as well-rounded, ductile, mature and consistent. We are confronting here an important disc in the history of recording in Spain.”
Juan Antonio González Fuentes · ojosdepapel.com

“The interpretation is excellent and brings out the most expresionist and rigorous side of Schoenberg’s music. A disc worth studying.”
Arturo Reverter · El Mundo

[Recitals]

The TK offered an interpretation of The Transfigured Night that was careful in the perception of contrasts and displayed discursive articulation fully integrated in the formal development of this work, early for its times, of the vienese composer.”
J. Jofré · El Punt

“The Trio Kandinsky is one of the best chamber music groups of this country. And it is because its members know the most important principal in chamber playing and have made it their own: the interplay of complexities in sound …We have here three musicians who can be called a pianista who listens, a cellist who makes her instrument sing, and a violinista of great sensitivity.”
Jaume Radigales · La Vanguardia

“The three muscians offered a well-rounded recital, in which tecnical and interpretive virtuosity remained at the service of the beautiful emotional flow present in works which advanced from vienese Classicism to the most extreme Romanticism. The Kandinsky display a superb balance of sound and a complete mutual understanding, delicacy, and intensity.”
Alicantissimo

“An excellent interpretive category…Brugalla always pleasing in his touch…Corrado Bolsi with admirable and very rich mechanical play…brilliant assured sensitiviy of Amparo Lacruz…”
Antonio Iglesias · ABC

“Music of quality, perfect coordination and tecnically impecable […] The compostion brought out the expressive individual possibilities […] the members let it be heard that they know how to achieve an excellent overall sound.”
Josefa Lobera · El Correo

“It’s exciting, the vitality of the sound of this trio Kandinsky, their decision and personality, even more so working with very new works that present great tecnical and of course interpretive difficulties. They solve them with spirit, something that is usually missing in modern music concerts, and even though many times it is implicit in the score, it gets left out through a lack of freedom and sinthesis in the interpretation.”
Jorge de Persia · La Vanguardia

“Memorable recital of Trio Kandinsky.
The Trio Kandinsky is in a position to offer not only versions of true and profound expressive meticulousness, but at the same time their musical discourse possesses that virtuoso eloquence that is never artificial, only striving to express with all the emotional force the content of the works they interpret.”
F. Taberna-Bech · Catalunya Música

“The group, which hasn’t visited Sabadell since the beginning of their career, showed a surprising maturity. [These musicians] have achieved an overwhelming coordination and an interpretive refinement that is a delight.”
David Ramon · El Diari de Sabadell

“The best ambassadors of contemporary music are performers like the Trio Kandinsky […] they are the first to believe in it, they fall in love with it, they work on it in depth, and they reveal it to the audience with conviction and in all its splendor. […] an interpretation full of power and precision, vehemence and intensity, good tonal balance and mutual understanding […] excellent dosification of tensions. […] high individual quality of each member of the Trio Kandinsky.”
Xavier Chavarria · Revista Musical Catalana

“The performers worked in sensitive solos and luminous moments of ensemble.”
Jorge de Persia · La Vanguardia

“The Trio Kandinsky is two years old, enough time to judge its standing. The rating couldn’t be higher. It’s a delight to listen to them and verify their loyalty to their founding promise of combining tradition with innovation, their mutual understanding, the expression and tecnical purity that become a language of their own. They are absolutely competitive and direct heirs “ in pectore“ of the longed-for Trio of Barcelona.”
X. Casanoves Danés · Avui

“The concert offered by the Trio Kandinsky, a group that is developing a considerable career, quickly grasped the attention of the audience, since the three musicians played the programmed works with a true chamber music spirit and an intense expressiveness […] The applauses came successively with growing enthusiasm […] The version of the quartet by Schnittke was impressive for its dense emotional content. In second part the Trio Kandinsky, with a level of true musicality, offered an unsurpassable version of the Trio of Isang Yun […] A hearing of the Passim Trio of Joan Guinjoan brought to a close this truely memorable concert.”
F. Taverna-Bech · Catalunya Música

“For a long time we’ve been left abandoned without the classic form of the trio- violin, cello and piano- and we have to greet the presentation of a new group, absolutely trustworthy, that with the name of Trio Kandinsky unites the violinista Manuel Porta, the cellist Amparo Lacruz and the pianista Emili Brugalla. As a matter of fact, ever since the trio Comellas, Cervera, Coll-excellent-broke up, and the Trio de Barcelona, composed of the Claret brothers and Albert Atttenelle, has stopped performing with a certain continuity, there has not been any group that could offer a individual quality of its members or an understanding as an ensemble as that that presented itself the night of Sunday the 28th”
Jordi Maluquer · Avui

“Very beautiful the sound of Corado Bolsi, good bow work and dynamic nuances, precision and homogenity in the tenuous sonorities of Amparo Lacruz, and musicality of Emili Brugalla particularly expressive. Good treatment of the expression, intelligent and sensitive; quite a merit for the performers.”
Jorge de Persia · La Vanguardia

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