ARIEL WALLER (b.1946): Trio No. 1, ARMANDO LAVALLE (1924-1994): Danzas Xalapeñas de Salón, EMMANUEL ARIAS (b. 1935): Trio in D Minor, Op. 44, LEONARDO VELÁSQUEZ (1935-2004): Trio.

Description: Back to more readily approachable with Lavalle’s suite of Xalapan dances and Arias’ mid-19th-century Romanticism while Velásquez shits between tempi and dynamics in a post-Romantic style whose slow parts recall Eastern European minimalism. Standing by itself is Waller’s piece in which barely recognizable rhythms and colors peep out as if distorted by a fun-house mirror. Rather fun, really! Trio Scherzando. Private label. No catalogue number.