The SpiegelBild Trio brings together a highly unusual combination of saxophone, accordion, and piano. They take a fresh look at famous classical works in addition to focusing on new music writ-ten especially for them by the younger generation of composers. With the CD Sceneries, the musicians dedicate their work to the Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest  Mussorgsky, contrasting these with pieces by young composers Martin Brenne and Roman Galiev, which  were written specifically for the trio. Like pic-tures in a gallery, this CD brings togeth-er imaginative sound paintings — from the oriental images of Martin Brenne’s Arabeske to Mussorgsky’s composed exhibition tour, which  conjures landscapes from France, Poland, and Italy, as well as scenes from the Middle Ages and Russian fairy tales, all the way to the bright colors of Roman Galiev’s Heaven scenery. 

The keyboard players for the Spie-gelBild Trio are two young graduates of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow, Konstantin Zvyagin and Vadim Baev. Shortly after completing their years there, they both moved to Cologne in or-der to study at the University of Music and Dance, where they soon formed a duo. Enthusiastic public reception, along with meeting the gifted saxophonist  Xavier Larsson, inspired them to form the Spie-gelBild Trio. Together, they now pursue a very active concert schedule through-out much  of Germany and abroad. Their fruitful collaboration with young com-posers, their search  for original works for this unusual combination of instruments, as well as working on new transcriptions and arrangements have enabled the trio to build a varied repertoire for this very exciting mix of sonorities. The present debut CD, Sceneries, was put together in ˇ˘ˇ and represents the fruit of a very in-tensive creative phase of the SpiegelBild Trio. It is with the great  pleasure that they now release it to the public.