Dmitri Smirnov wrote his Trio No. 1 for violin, cello and piano in 1977, five years after his graduating from the Moscow Conservatoire. It is dedicated to his teacher Edison Denisov. The three movements of the work correspond with three different states of musical sound, which symbolically represent the life of a human spirit: 1. Adagio molto-the birth of the sound; 2. Allegro-the active and expressive life of the sound; 3. Lento ("Dies Irae" theme...