Dvorak - Piano Trio no.3, Sonatina, 3 Slavonic Dances | Nimbus NI5952

Dvorak - Piano Trio no.3, Sonatina, 3 Slavonic Dances

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Label: Nimbus

Cat No: NI5952

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 2nd June 2023

Contents

Works

Dvorak, Antonin

Piano Trio no.3 in F minor, op.65
Slavonic Dances: Series I, op.46 B83
» no.2 in E minor (arr. F Kreisler)
Slavonic Dances: Series II, op.72 B147
» no.2 in E minor (arr. F Kreisler)
» no.8 in A flat major (arr. Kreisler)
Sonatina in G major for violin and piano, op.100

Artists

Shaham Erez Wallfisch Trio

Works

Dvorak, Antonin

Piano Trio no.3 in F minor, op.65
Slavonic Dances: Series I, op.46 B83
» no.2 in E minor (arr. F Kreisler)
Slavonic Dances: Series II, op.72 B147
» no.2 in E minor (arr. F Kreisler)
» no.8 in A flat major (arr. Kreisler)
Sonatina in G major for violin and piano, op.100

Artists

Shaham Erez Wallfisch Trio

About

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) was a prolific and versatile composer who made richly diverse contributions to practically every genre of classical music. As a violist and keyboard player, he had a particular affinity with chamber music composition. Some of his chamber outputs held significance at crucial milestones in his career, as the items on this disc clearly corroborate.

Dvořák composed his Piano Trio no.3 in F minor, op.65, in 1883. He then set about revising it, reversing the order of the two central movements, making many cuts and rewriting several passages. The dark, impassioned final version reflects his personal grief due to the loss of three of his children in infancy and the death of his mother, self-doubt and emotional tensions at the time and owes much to Beethoven and Brahms in its form, rhythmic interplay, textures and melodic invention.

Dvořák began to conceive his Sonatina, op.100, in the autumn of 1893 after a summer sojourn in Spillville, Iowa. He completed it on 3 December 1893 and dedicated it ‘to my children’, having taken into consideration the performing capabilities of his fifteen-year-old daughter Otilká (piano) and ten-year-old son Toník (violin). The work was published in 1894 by Simrock, to whom Dvořák confirmed that it was ‘intended for young people… but grown-ups, too, may not be unwilling to amuse themselves with it.’

The legendary violinist, Fritz Kreisler’s version of the Slavonic Dance in E minor, op.72 no.2, remains fairly faithful to Dvořák’s original, but his arrangement of op.72 no.8 (in G instead of the original A-flat major) comprises a much freer selection from its various waltz-like strains, skilful use of double stopping making much of it sound like a violin duet. Kreisler extends artistic licence even further in his adaptation of op.46 no.2. Beginning in G minor (instead of the original E minor), the material of its melancholy opening section frames a lively dance episode in an A-B-A’ structure; the A’ reprise of the theme, however, is in E minor and leads to a rhythmic episode extracted from a completely different dance – op.72 no.1! A return to a varied version of the melancholy theme is soon gate-crashed by that same rhythmic episode by way of conclusion.

Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch was founded in 2009 and comprises three of the finest international instrumentalists performing today. Since its formation, the Trio has been invited numerous times to prestigious chamber music series at venues such as London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Rotterdam De Doellen, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. The trio often appears in Spain, the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Israel and Canada. This outstanding trio has been invited by the Wigmore hall to present the complete Beethoven piano trios in 2020, the composer’s 250th anniversary.

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