Enchantments - Noten für Violine, Cello + Klavier Zvonimir Nagy

I. Scattered Charms
II. Nocturne
III. Incantation
IV. Valse Burlesque

First performance by Zagreb Piano Trio, Croatia (April 1999)
Revised work first performance by Trio Jonió,, University of Evora, Portugal (January 2012)

PROGRAM NOTE

Composed in 1998-99, and revised in 2013, Enchantments features four movements: Scattered
Charms, Nocturne, Incantation, and Valse Burlesque. These four character-pieces offer a playful
glimpse into an exploration of chamber writing and musical narrative in my early works. The original
version of the piece was entitled Piano Trio (1998/99) and was premiered by the Zagreb Piano Trio in
1999. While this initial version of the trio was also comprised of four movements, the present edition
replaces the original fourth movement with a violin and piano piece titled Valse Burlesque which was
composed in 1998 - a fleeting musical postcard and humorous take on a Valse.

The music of Enchantments reflects an imaginary sound world portrayed in colorful harmonies and
instrumentation. The given titles further suggest music imagery with percussive, pointillist flourishes,
suspended tones, palpable melodic fragments, and decorative dissonances that entwine the
transparency of melodic and rhythmic gestures. At times moving and cheerful, restrained and
sentimental, and then resounding and rhythmic, the movements of Enchantments offer great variety
in their scoring. While it is suggested that movements two and three are performed consecutively
attacca, movements one, three, and four can also be performed individually.