Philip Venables

A composer of ferocious dramatic instincts
— Alex Ross, The New Yorker

Tag: Phoenix Piano Trio

  • Below The Belt

    Below The Belt

    My debut album, Below the Belt, is now available for pre-ordering via NMC here. The disc will be launched on 16th March 2018.  The works on the disc are:

    The Revenge of Miguel Cotto,
    Klaviertrio im Geiste,
    Numbers 76–80,
    Numbers 91-95,
    Metamorphoses after Britten,
    Illusions.

    The disc features David Hoyle, the London Sinfonietta, Phoenix Piano Trio, Ligeti Quartet, Leigh Melrose, Dario Dugandzic, Nick Blackburn, Melinda Maxwell, Natalie Raybould, Lewis Bretherton, George Chambers and Ashley Mercer, conducted by Richard Baker.

  • Video of Klaviertrio im Geiste, Oxford

    Video of Klaviertrio im Geiste, Oxford

    Score and more info here

    performed by the Phoenix Piano Trio
    at Oxford Lieder Festival, Holywell Music Room, Oxford, UK.
    on 20th October 2012.

    Klaviertrio im Geiste is based on the second movement of Beethoven’s Ghost Trio (Piano Trio No. 5, Op.70/1). If you listen to both pieces side by side you can hear the connections between the second movement and my piece!

  • Klaviertrio im Geiste (middle bit)

    Klaviertrio im Geiste (middle bit)

     

    performed by the Phoenix Piano Trio
    at Oxford Lieder Festival, Holywell Music Room, Oxford, UK.
    on 20th October 2012.

    Klaviertrio im Geiste is based on the second movement of Beethoven’s Ghost Trio (Piano Trio No. 5, Op.70/1). This is the third movement (Scherzo).

  • BBC Radio 3, In Tune, with Phoenix Piano Trio

    BBC Radio 3, In Tune, with Phoenix Piano Trio

    Wonderful news: one of the movements (the Scherzo) from my new piano trio, Klaviertrio im Geiste, will be performed live on BBC Radio 3 on Friday afternoon, 10th June, from about 4.45pm.  It’ll be performed by the Phoenix Piano Trio as part of a performance and interview about their Beyond Beethoven series.

    They very nicely commissioned me last year to write this new trio, as a companion to Beethoven’s Ghost trio, which they’ll perform together with my piece at The Forge in Camden, London, on Wednesday evening, 8th June, and in Oxford at theHolywell Music Room on Saturday 11th June.

    It feels like this piece is a big compositional step forwards for me: lots more process-based musical structure and much more clarity and simplicity than earlier pieces.  It feels like a very positive change. So I’m particularly excited to hear it realised.

    UPDATE:

    You can listen again on iPlayer for the next 5 days – click here.

    The Phoenix are on from the beginning, and the bit with me in starts from about 12:45 minutes in.