Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime.
This week’s pick from the Naxos label (8.559298) is a performance of Jennifer Higdon’s Piano Trio, specifically the second of its two movements, Fiery Red. The American composer herself sets the scene: “Can music reflect colours and can colours be reflected in music? I have always been fascinated with the connection between painting and music. I often picture colours as if I were spreading them on a canvas, except I do so with melodies, harmonies and through the peculiar sounds of the instruments themselves [and] it begs the question, can colours (in music, word and painting) actually convey a mood?” You be the judge!