SKU: BO.B.3713
Without doubt, the most important chamber music work by Malats, and one of his finest compositions, is his Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in B Flat Major. It was composed in 1898.Malats dedicated the Trio to one of the greatest composers of all time, Camille Saint-Saëns, close personal friend of both Malats and Granados. An unknown gem of the chamber music repertoire, this Modernist work is superior in form, technique and musical content to similar work by Granados, Breton, Chapi and others.Malats had considerable knowledge and experience with the trio form. In 1894 at the Sala erard in Paris he performed four trios by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Godard and Saint-Saëns with C. Flesch and Hasselmann. Given his experiences with chamber music it is not surprising that Malats exhibited such confidence and security in writing his Trio maintaining perfect balance and dialogue between the three instruments which he achieved through masterful control of the formal structure. This work has a rich harmonic language and none of the Nationalist qualities of his previous pieces. Instead, it reveals Malats proximity to then current European music yet, at the same time, exhibits his personal style and musical knowledge.
SKU: BO.B.3714
Malats composed and transcribed several works for violin and piano based on some of his piano works. Two of these are the Canto de Amor (Love Song) and the Serenata Espanola (Spanish Serenade), both from the suite Impresiones de Espana (Impressions of Spain).There are only three songs for voice and piano by Malats which are known at the present time: a Nana (Lullaby) dedicated to Rosita Malats, written in the form of a theme and variations; Tristesse (Sadness) dedicated to Eliseo Meifren, with a text by Alfred de Musset; and, finally, an arrangement of the well-known Serenata Espanola with a text by Jose Nieto.We know that Malats composed a collection of songs with texts by Catulle Mendez, Maria Sourcouf, Henri de Braine and David and Armando Silvestre. However, no publication of these songs is known, nor of the two romances Reveil and En Vous Voyant that were performed by the tenor Ramon Blanchart in 1898 at the Ateneo in Madrid.
SKU: BO.B.3715
