New Album Releases: CLARA SCHUMANN & REBECCA CLARKE (Trio Rigamonti)

New Album Releases: CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH - SYMPHONIES - FROM BERLIN TO HAMBURG (Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin)

Artist:
Trio Rigamonti

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
55:00

Record Label:
Brilliant Classics

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
March 15, 2024

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Product Description: This pair of piano trios has become recognised in recent years as among the finest works by their composers, and they make a complementary pairing despite their contrasting idioms. This new recording also makes a fine showcase for a trio of Italian siblings who have won many prizes in chamber-music competitions and give recitals across Italy as Trio Rigamonti.Completed in 1846, the G minor Piano Trio of Clara Schumann thus postdates her early piano pieces by decades, and is accordingly a much more mature and accomplished work. She handles the piano-trio dynamic with great skill, balancing her piano part against the strings with sensitivity, and the whole piece is shot through with a pathos that bears comparison with contemporary works by both her husband and her friend Brahms.While there is no shortage of light and shade to the second theme of the first movement and the playful central Scherzo, the expressive pull of Clara Schumann's Piano Trio draws the listener towards the piano's deeply felt introduction to the slow movement, which achieves remarkable pathos within it's relatively brief duration. The turbulent finale skilfully balances the scale of the first movement, and the whole piece ranks among the most satisfying of 19th-century piano trios.It's counterpart in the early years of the 20th century, hardly less rewarding a contribution to the piano-trio literature than contemporary works by Ravel and Rachmaninoff, is the Piano Trio composed in 1921 by Rebecca Clarke. The angst of Clara's finale is answered and intensified by a gripping confrontation at the start of Clarke's Trio, which does not so much subside as simmer throughout the first movement. The central Andante flows like a free-running brook and yet is achingly lyrical, before the Allegro vigoroso finale spins the listener through a whirling kaleidoscope of music past and future. These trios make a natural pairing in concert and on record and yet they are still too rarely heard, but Trio Rigamonti are passionate advocates.

TRACK LIST:

1 . Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17: I. Allegro Moderato (11:18)

2 . Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17: II. Scherzo. Tempo di menuetto - Trio (05:10)

3 . Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17: III. Andante (05:15)

4 . Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17: IV. Allegretto (08:01)

5 . Piano Trio: I. Moderato ma Appassionato (09:55)

6 . Piano Trio: II. Andante molto Semplice (06:51)

7 .Piano Trio: III. Allegro Vigoroso (08:43)

Clara Schumann Rebecca Clarke Piano Trios Trio Rigamonti Album

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