Smetana / Tchaikovsky / Grieg - Piano Trios
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Label: Simax
Cat No: PSC1279
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 6th April 2009
Contents
About
Edvard Grieg’s only essay in the genre was completed, according to the date on the manuscript, on 17 June 1878. The rarely recorded Andante Con Moto in C minor is a substantial piece, apparently intended as the slow movement of a piano trio, though in fact its contrasts of character and alternation of slow with faster tempi make it an effective single-movement work. It is certainly no sketch or draft but a fully-realized piece in every way, and of a quality comparable to Grieg’s other, better known, chamber compositions.
Bedřich Smetana is one of the most prominent Czech national composers. His Piano Trio of 1855 was written in memory of his daughter ‘Frizi’, who died of scarlet fever the same year. The work is spontaneous, rhapsodic and deeply personal in its musical character.
Tchaikovsky’s Trio Op.50 holds a special position. The catalyst for this work was the death of the pianist and pedagogue Nicolai Rubinstein. Tchaikovsky stated that it was “a new form of music that I never have written before”. Op.50 is a highlight in the romantic literature, both in the pure musical sense and because of the fact that the whole piece lasts for more than 46 minutes. The Grieg Trio received the Critics’ Award in 1993 for their performance of this epic piano trio.
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