Silenced Voices includes the world premiere recording of wartime survivor Géza Frid's early Trio à cordes, Op. 1, an inventive work infused with Hungarian folk music influences. Composer-cellist Paul Hermann's Strijktrio, a forward-looking, cosmopolitan work from the early 1920s, shares its melodies among all three instruments. Dick Kattenburg's youthful Trio à cordes was praised in a 1938 concert review for its "remarkable mastery and a very personal style." Gideon Klein's Trio for violin, viola and cello is notable for its treatment of a Moravian folk song that serves as the theme of its middle movement. Hans Krása's Tánec ("Dance") is a five-minute whirl of dancelike episodes framed by the sonic evocation of trains. His Passagalia is more somber, with its own train motifs, while its companion Fuga bears shades of Germanic and Czech influences and occasional grotesque touches. Sándor Kuti's Serenade for String Trio brims with Hungarian folk music and piquant chord clusters. His Franz Liszt Academy classmate, conductor Sir Georg Solti, later proclaimed that Kuti "would have become one of Hungary's greatest composers."

TRACKLIST

1. Black Oak Ensemble - String Trio
2. Black Oak Ensemble - Serenade for String Trio: I. Allegro giocoso
3. Black Oak Ensemble - Serenade for String Trio: II. Scherzando
4. Black Oak Ensemble - Serenade for String Trio: III. Adagio ma non troppo
5. Black Oak Ensemble - Passacaglia & Fugue: I. Passacaglia
6. Black Oak Ensemble - Passacaglia & Fugue: II. Fugue
7. Black Oak Ensemble - Tánec for String Trio
8. Black Oak Ensemble - String Trio: I. Allegro
9. Black Oak Ensemble - String Trio: II. Lento
10. Black Oak Ensemble - String Trio: III. Molto vivace
11. Black Oak Ensemble - String Trio
12. Black Oak Ensemble - String Trio, Op. 1: I. Allegretto
13. Black Oak Ensemble - String Trio, Op. 1: II. Andante cantabile
14. Black Oak Ensemble - String Trio, Op. 1: III. Allegro giocoso all'ungheres