Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn - Complete Piano Trios
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 94490
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 25th March 2013
Contents
Works
Piano Trio in D minor, op.11Piano Trio in C minor (1820)
Piano Trio in C minor, op.66
Piano Trio in D minor, op.49
Artists
Hrvoje Jugovic (piano)Maria Bader‐Kubizek (violin)
Dorothea Schonwiese‐Guschlbauer (cello)
Silvia Schweinberger (viola)
Works
Piano Trio in D minor, op.11Piano Trio in C minor (1820)
Piano Trio in C minor, op.66
Piano Trio in D minor, op.49
Artists
Hrvoje Jugovic (piano)Maria Bader‐Kubizek (violin)
Dorothea Schonwiese‐Guschlbauer (cello)
Silvia Schweinberger (viola)
About
This collection brings together the Piano Trios of the siblings. Felix's unusually scored Trio for piano, violin and viola in C minor was written when he was just ten years old. Beginning with a Baroque-style theme, its elfin motif, as featured later, is a clear precursor to the music of A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.49. It dates from Felix's mature period and boasts a spectacular piano part, which the composer himself played at the premiere (the first movement has been referred to as a 'perfect synthesis of the mastery of Classical form with Romantic diction').
Op.66, meanwhile, is a passionate and exciting work - his penultimate chamber piece and one that revisits elfin themes in the Scherzo, ending in a resplendent Bach-style chorale.
The last work featured on the set, Fanny's Piano Trio contains a virtuosic piano part that begins with dramatic tremolos but later evolves into a calm, harp-like accompaniment, with a dance-like finale revisiting the second theme to provide a jubilant end to the collection.
At the keyboard is Hrvoje Jugovic, who plays four different historical pianos throughout the recording. His fellow musicians are violinist Maria Bader-Kubizek, cellist Dorothea Schonwiese-Guschlbauer and violist Silvia Schweinberger.
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