Original Title: Броненосец Потёмкин
Year: 1925
Country: USSR
Length: 77 minutes
Company: Goskino
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Cinematography: Eduard Tisse
Cast: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigor Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Genre: Drama. War
#war #russia #soviet #revolution #socialism #social
Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa.
Written by Konstantin Dlutskii
1) Trio: vln, perc, piano
Original Title: Faust
Year: 1926
Country: Germany
Length: 100 minutes
Company: Goskino
Director: F. W. Murnau
Cinematography: Carl Hoffmann
Cast: Emil Jannings, Gösta Ekman, Camilla Horn, William Dieterle
Genres: Drama. Fantasy
#devil #seduction #death #youth #deal
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist. During a plague, Faust despairs and burns his books after failing to stop death; Satan sends Mephisto to tempt Faust, first with insight into treating the plague and then with a day's return to youth. Mephisto is clever, timing the end of this 24 hours as Faust embraces the beautiful Duchess of Parma. Faust trades his soul for youth. Some time later, he's bored, and demands on Easter Sunday that Mephisto take him home. Faust promptly sees and falls in love with the beautiful Gretchen, whose liaison with him brings her dishonor. Is there redemption? Who wins the wager?
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1) Trio: vln, perc, piano
Original Title: Häxan
Year: 1922
Country: Denmark
Length: 105 minutes
Company: Svensk Filmindustri / Aljosha
Genres: Documentary. Drama. Horror
Director: Benjamin Christensen
Cinematography: Johan Ankerstjerne
Cast: Elisabeth Christensen, Astrid Holm, Karen Winther, Maren Pedersen, Ella La Cour
#religion #middle age #witch #inquisition #sorcery #devil #evil
A historical view of witchcraft in seven parts and a variety of styles. First, there is a slide-show alternating inter-titles with drawings and paintings to illustrate the behavior of pagan cultures in the Middle Ages regarding their vision of demons and witches. Then there is a dramatization of the situation of the witches in the Middle Ages, witchcraft and witch-hunts. Finally the film compares the behavior of hysteria of contemporary (1921) women with the behavior of the witches in the Middle Ages, concluding that they are very similar.
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
2) Quartet: accordion, violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: Umarete wa Mita Keredo
Year: 1932
Country: Japan
Length: 91 minutes
Company: Sôchiku Eiga
Genres: Drama. Comedy
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Cinematography: Hideo Sigehara
Cast: Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara, Takeshi Sakamoto
#neighbors #family #childhood #boys #youth #gang
In the 30s, a low middle-class family composed of the father (Tatsuo Saito), the mother (Mitsuko Yoshikawa) and two little sons (Hideo Sugawara and Tomio Aoki) has just moved to a suburb of Tokyo. The two brothers have some sort of adaptation problem with the kids in their neighborhood, but they feel protected with their beloved father, and they become leaders of the gang. Their father is a clerk in an office, and his director lives in the same neighborhood, and he tries to be promoted in his job being a servile flatterer of his boss. One night, the boys find that his father has a silly behavior in his job to please his boss, and they lose the respect for their father, questioning him why he can not be the director of the company.
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1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: Körkarlen
Year: 1921
Country: Sweden
Length: 106 minutes
Company: Svensk Filmindustri
Director: Victor Sjöström
Cinematography: Julius Jaenzon
Cast: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm
Genre: Drama. Fantasy
#ghost #life and death #redemption #family #alcohol #friends
It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, the one that picks up the souls of the dead... David Holm, one of the three drunkards, dies at the last stroke of midnight...
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: Chelovek s kno-apparatom
Year: 1929
Country: USSR
Length: 67 minutes
Company: VUFKU
Director: Dziga Vertov
Cinematography: Mikhail Kaufman
Cast: -
Genres: Documentary. Experimental
#art #eye #slow motion #innovative #abstract
This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film. Even the editing of the film is documented. We often see the cameraman who is purportedly making the film, but we rarely, if ever, see any of the footage he seems to be in the act of shooting!
Written by George S. Davis
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
2) Quartet: clarinet, violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: Metropolis
Year: 1927
Country: Germany
Length: 118 minutes
Company: U.F.A
Genres: Drama. Sci-Fi
Director: Fritz Lang
Cinematography: Karl Freund
Cast: Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
#machine #work #socialism #science fiction #robot #workclass
In Metropolis, society is divided in two classes: the rich, who have all the power and all kinds of luxuries and the workers, doomed to work and confined to live in poor conditions. One day, Freder (Alfred Abel), the son of the powerful Joh Fredersen (Gustav Frohlich), the man who is in charge of the whole city, after falling in love with Maria (Brigitte Helm), discovers the hard conditions in which the workers live and warns his father about a possible rebellion.
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: Mat
Year: 1926
Country: USSR
Length: 88 minutes
Company: Mezhrabpom
Genres: Drama
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Cinematography: Anatoly Golovnya
Cast: Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Ivan Koval-Samborsky
#family #war #division #father #pain #love #propaganda
Russian director Vsevolod I. Pudovkin's "Mother" is the chronicle of an individual's transformation from political naivete to Marxist awareness set during the 1905 Russian Revolution. Pudovkin uses innovative montage techniques and camera angles to tell this bold story of national unrest through the eyes of a working class woman.
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
Year: 1922
Country: Germany
Length: 91 minutes
Company: Prana Film
Director: F. W. Murnau
Cinematography: Fritz Arno Wanger
Cast: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Genre: Horror. Expressionism
#ghost #life and death #vampire #dracula #bite #travel #castle
Wisbourg, Germany based estate agent Knock dispatches his associate, Hutter, to Count Orlok's castle in Transylvania as the Count wants to purchase an isolated house in Wisbourg. They plan on selling him the one across the way from Hutter's own home. Hutter leaves his innocent wife, Ellen, with some friends while he is away. Hutter's trek is an unusual one, with many locals not wanting to take him near the castle where strange events have been occurring. Once at the castle, Hutter does manage to sell the Count the house, but he also notices and feels unusual occurrences, primarily feeling like there is a dark shadow hanging over him, even in the daytime when the Count is unusually asleep. Hutter eventually sees the Count's sleeping chamber in a crypt, and based on a book he has recently read, believes the Count is really a vampire or Nosferatu. While Hutter is trapped in the castle, the Count, hiding in a shipment of coffins, makes his way to Wisbourg, causing death along his way.
Written by Huggo
1) Duo: violin, percussion, piano
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
1) Ensemble: 2 violins, 2 percussion sets, electric guitar, live electronics and piano
Original Title: Oktyabr
Year: 1928
Country: USSR
Length: 100 minutes
Company: Sovkino
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Cinematography: Eduard Tissé
Cast: Vassili Nikandrov, Boris Livanov, Eduard Tissé, Nikolai Podvoisky
Genres: Drama. Historical
#history #propaganda #russia #revolution #soviet #politics
In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November of that year. Lenin returns in April. In July, counter-revolutionaries put down a spontaneous revolt, and Lenin's arrest is ordered. By late October, the Bolsheviks are ready to strike: ten days will shake the world. While the Mensheviks vacillate, an advance guard infiltrates the palace. Anatov-Oveyenko leads the attack and signs the proclamation dissolving the provisional government.
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1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: Robin Hood
Year: 1922
Country: USA
Length: 143 minutes
Company: United Artists
Genres: Adventures
Director: Allan Dwan
Cinematography: Arthur Edeson
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Sam de Grasse, Enid Bennett
#england #adventures #middleages #romance #13thcentury #sherwood #tale
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, and Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swash buckling feats and cliffhanging perils!
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Original Title: Safetly Last
Year: 1923
Country: USA
Length: 77 minutes
Company: Pathé / Hal Roach
Director: Fred Newmeyer
Cinematography: Walter Lundin
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strothers, Noah Young
Genres: Comedy
#comedy #clock #building #country #city
In 1922, the country boy Harold says goodbye to his mother and his girlfriend Mildred in the train station and leaves Great Bend expecting to be successful in the big city. Harold promises to Mildred to get married with her as soon as he "make good". Harold shares a room with his friend "Limpy" Bill and he finally gets a job as salesman in the De Vore Department Store. However, he pawns Bill's phonograph, buys a lavaliere and writes to Mildred telling that he is a manager of De Vore. One day, Harold sees an old friend from Great Bend that is a policeman and when he meets his friend Bill, he asks Bill to push the policeman over him and make him fall down. However Bill pushes the wrong policeman that chases him, but he escapes climbing up a building. Out of the blue, Mildred is convinced by her mother to visit Harold without previous notice and he pretends to be the manager of De Vore. When Harold overhears the general manager telling that he would give one thousand dollars to to anyone...
(by Claudio Carvalho)
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1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: Seven Chances
Year: 1925
Country: USA
Length: 56 minutes
Company: Metro-Goldwyn
Genres: Comedy
Director: Buster Keaton
Cinematography: Elgin Lessley
Cast: Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards
#love #wedding #money #time
When Jimmie Shannon's uncle leaves him seven million dollars in his will, it seems as though his fortune is well and truly made... until he reads the small print: in order to quality, he has to be married by 7pm on his 27th birthday, which just happens to be that very day.
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: Sherlock Jr.
Year: 1924
Country: USA
Length: 45 minutes
Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Genres: Comedy
Director: Buster Keaton
Cinematography: Byron Houck
Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Ward Crane
#slapstick #literature #cinema #romance #dream #sherlockholmes
A meek and mild projectionist, who also cleans up after screenings, would like nothing better than to be a private detective. He becomes engaged to a pretty girl but a ladies man known as the Sheik vies for her affection. He gets rid of the projectionist by stealing a pocket watch belonging to the girl's father - which he pawns to buy her an expensive box of candy. He then slips the pawn ticket into the projectionist's pocket and subsequently is found by the police. He doesn't have much luck but in his dreams, he the debonair and renowned detective Sherlock Jr. who faces danger and solves the crime. In real life, the girl solves crimes quickly. (by Garykmcd, via iMDB)
1) Solo piano
1) Duo: piano, percussion
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Year: 1928
Country: USA
Length: 71 minutes
Company: Buster Keaton Productions
Genres: Comedy
Director: Buster Keaton
Cinematography: Bert Haines
Cast: Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis
#steam #ship #families #rivalry
It is the story of a college-educated young man who comes home to help his father work on his Mississippi River steamboat and immediately demonstrates just what a landlubber he is. What's worse, the woman he falls for is the daughter of his father's worst rival, a bullying rich guy who wants to drive Buster's boat out of business.
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1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
1) Trio: flute, percussion, piano
Original Title: Sunrise
Year: 1927
Country: USA
Length: 94 minutes
Company: Fox Films
Genres: Drama. Romance
Director: F. W. Murnau
Cinematography: Charles Rosher
Cast: Georges O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
#romance #couple #murder #redemption #love #storm
A farmer (George O' Brien) lives happily with his wife (Janet Gaynor) until he meets an attractive woman from the city (Margaret Livingstone). The farmer falls in love with this sophisticated woman and starts to think that his wife is standing in the way of their love.
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Year: 1931
Country: USA
Length: 90 minutes
Company: Paramount Pictures
Genres: Drama
Director: F. W. Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty
Cinematography: Floyd Crosby
Cast: Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Bill Bambridge
#family #romance #traditions #revenge #tribal #polynesian
In one island of Bora Bora lagoon, a young fisherman, Matahi, is in love with Reri. But she is chosen to be the holy maid and therefore becomes "tabu". They ran away from that tradition. Will they be happier and luckier in the more "civilized" society?
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1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed
Year: 1925
Country: Germany
Length: 65 minutes
Company: Comenius Film
Genres: Adventures. Animation
Director: Lotte Reiniger
Cinematography: Carl Koch
Cast: -
#romance #stop-motion #middle east #tale #warrior
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (German: Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) is a 1926 German animated fairytale film by Lotte Reiniger. It is the oldest surviving animated feature film; two earlier ones were made in Argentina by Quirino Cristiani, but they are considered lost. The Adventures of Prince Achmed features a silhouette animation technique Reiniger had invented which involved manipulated cutouts made from cardboard and thin sheets of lead under a camera. The technique she used for the camera is similar to Wayang shadow puppets, though hers were animated frame by frame, not manipulated in live action. The original prints featured color tinting.
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
2) Trio: flute, percussion, piano
Original Title: Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari
Year: 1920
Country: Germany
Length: 63 minutes
Company: Decla
Director: Robert Wiene
Cinematography: Willy Rameister
Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Genres: Horror. Expressionism
#hypnosis #somnambulist #medicine #plot twist #set design
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep. When Alan asks Cesare about his future, Cesare answers that he will die before dawn. The next morning Alan is found dead. Francis suspects Cesare of being the murderer and starts spying on him and Dr. Caligari. The following night Cesare is going to stab Jane in her bed but softens when he sees the beautiful woman, and instead of committing another murder, he abducts her. Jane's father awakens because of the noise, and he and some servants follow the fleeing Cesare. When Cesare cannot outrun his pursuers anymore, he gently places Jane down on the ground and runs away. Francis and the police investigate the caravan of Dr. Caligari...
Written by Maths Jesperson
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: The Cameraman
Year: 1928
Country: USA
Length: 69 minutes
Company: Metro-Goldwyn
Genres: Comedy
Director: Buster Keaton
Cinematography: Elgin Lessley
Cast: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harry Gribbon, Harold Goodwin
#work #journalism #love #opportunity
Luke Shannon (Buster Keaton), is a bumbling photographer who, in order to win the favor of a beautiful woman, takes a job as a newsreel cameraman. Hilarity ensues as he stumbles through a parade, a Chinese Tong war, a yacht club regatta, a crowded dressing room and a solo baseball game.
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1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: The General
Year: 1926
Country: USA
Length: 74 minutes
Company: United Artists
Director: Buster Keaton
Cinematography: Bert Haines
Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley
Genre: Comedy. Adventure
#war #civil war #history #army #trains #love
Johnny Gray is the engineer for the Western and Atlantic Flyer, and his engine is named "The General." There are two loves in Johnny's life, "The General" and Annabelle Lee. During a visit to Annabelle's home, her brother comes in and announces that Fort Sumter has been fired upon, and, immediately, he and Annabelle's father go to enlist in the Southern cause. Johnny does, too, but he is rejected because "he is more valuable to the South as an engineer." Due to a misunderstanding, Annabelle's father and brother think Johnny refused to sign up. After being told of his supposed cowardice, Annabelle informs Johnny that she will not speak to him again until he is in uniform. A year later, a group of Union soldiers led by Captain Anderson steal Johnny's train with Annabelle in one of the boxcars. Johnny gives chase in another train with all sorts of mishaps and comicals events happening along the way. Deep into Union territory, the Yankee soldiers realize Johnny is alone on the train. Johnny deserts the train and flees into the woods.
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Year: 1923
Country: USA
Length: 97 minutes
Company: Universal
Director: Wallace Worsley
Cinematography: Robert S. Newhard
Cast: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Ernest Torrence, Raymond Hatton
Genre: Drama
#XVcentury #france #disability #church
Clopin bought Esmeralda from the gipsies when she was young. Dancing in the square at the festival, Esmeralda is spotted by Jehan, the evil brother of the good archdeacon Claude Frollo. When he sets Quasimodo out to kidnap Esmeralda, Phoebus, Captain of the Guards, rescues her and captures Quasimodo. The courts sentence Quasimodo to be flogged and the only one who will give him water while he is tied in the square is Esmeralda. After Clopin forces Esmeralda to leave Phoebus at the ball, she sends a note to Phoebus to meet her at Notre-Dame. In the garden, Phoebus is stabbed in the back by Jehan. Esmeralda is accused of stabbing Phoebus, convicted by the courts and sentenced to hang. When Esmeralda again rejects Jehan, he tells her that Phoebus is dead, even though it is not true. Clopin, Phoebus and Quasimodo all try different ways to save Esmeralda. (by Tony Fontana)
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1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: The Iron Mask
Year: 1929
Country: USA
Length: 85 minutes
Company: United Artists
Genres: Adventure. Action
Director: Allan Dwan
Cinematography: Henry Sharp
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Margarite de la Motte, William Bakewell, Nigel de Brulier, Ulrich Haupt, Belle Bennett
#france #d'artagnan #musketeer #richelieu
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever. Richelieu enlists D'Artagnan to look after and protect the young prince. Meanwhile, de Rochefort learns of the twins and Richelieu's plans, and kidnaps the twin, raising him in secret. Many years later, with Richelieu dead and the young prince crowned King Louis XIV, Rochefort launches his plan. The king is kidnapped, replaced with his twin, put in an iron mask so as not to be recognized, and led off to a remote castle to be held prisoner. Louis XIV is able to alert D'Artagnan, who realizes that only his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis can help him, so he reunites the Musketeers to derail Rochefort's nefarious plot but at a heavy toll.
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: The Navigator
Year: 1924
Country: USA
Length: 59 minutes
Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Genres: Comedy
Director: Buster Keaton
Cinematography: Elgin Lessley
Cast: CBuster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom
#sea #ship #rich #romance #adventure #tribal
Rollo decides to marry his sweetheart Betsy and sail to Honolulu. When she rejects him he decides to go alone but boards the wrong ship, the "Navigator" owned by Betsy's father. Unaware of this, Betsy boards the ship to look for her father. whom spies capture before cutting the ship loose. It drifts out to sea with the two socialites each unaware of there being anyone else on board
Written by Ed Stephan
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1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
Year: 1928
Country: Frace
Length: 110 minutes
Company: Societé Generale de Films
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cinematography: Rudolph Maté
Cast: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Maurice Schutz, Michel Simon
Genres: Drama. Historical
#religion #inquisition #middle ages #history #trial
Year 1431. Young french Joan of Arc is put on trial for alleged treason. Once glorified as her nation’s saviour, she has become a mere pawn in a game of political intrigue. Her sacrifice would appear inevitable...
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
2) Ensemble: string quartet, wind quintet, percussion and piano
3) SATB Choir and Ensemble
Original Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Year: 1925
Country: USA
Length: 93 minutes
Company: Universal
Genres: Drama. Horror
Director: Rupert Julian
Cinematography: Milton Bridenbecker
Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe
#opera #catacombs #faust #romance #kidnap
At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs, where he lives. What's his goal? What's his secret?
Written by Yepok
1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
1) Quartet: soprano, violin, percussion, piano
Original Title: Three Ages
Year: 1923
Country: USA
Length: 63 minutes
Company: Buster Keaton Productions
Genres: Comedy. History
Director: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cinematography: William McGann
Cast: Buster Keaton, Wallace Beery, Margaret Leahy
#prehistory #parody #romanempire #anthology #slapstick
In his first independently produced feature film Buster tells of love and romance through three historical ages: the Stone Age, the Roman Age, and the Modern Age.
Written by Ed Stephan
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1) Trio: violin, percussion, piano
1) Quartet: soprano, violin, percussion, piano