Josef Labor: Clarinet Quintets & Trios Thorsten Johanss, Nina Karmon, Andreas Willwohl, Alexander Hülshoff, Olivier Triendl

• Josef Labor (1842 - 1924): Piano Quintet in D Major, Op. 11:
• 1 Labor: Piano Quintet in D Major, Op. 11: I. Allegro 12:51
• 2 Labor: Piano Quintet in D Major, Op. 11: II. Allegretto grazioso 06:13
• 3 Labor: Piano Quintet in D Major, Op. 11: III. Quasi fantasia. Adagio 03:16
• 4 Labor: Piano Quintet in D Major, Op. 11: IV. Tema con variazioni. Quasi Allegretto 10:34
• Trio for Clarinet, Viola & Piano Left Hand in G Minor:
• 5 Labor: Trio for Clarinet, Viola & Piano Left Hand in G Minor: I. Allegro ma non troppo 12:06
• 6 Labor: Trio for Clarinet, Viola & Piano Left Hand in G Minor: II. Quasi Allegretto e grazioso 05:44
• 7 Labor: Trio for Clarinet, Viola & Piano Left Hand in G Minor: III. Adagio ma non troppo 07:29
• 8 Labor: Trio for Clarinet, Viola & Piano Left Hand in G Minor: IV. Allegro 08:57
• Piano Quintet in D Major:
• 9 Labor: Piano Quintet in D Major: I. Allegro comodo 09:56
• 10 Labor: Piano Quintet in D Major: II. Adagio ma non troppo 06:21
• 11 Labor: Piano Quintet in D Major: III. Quasi Allegretto 06:05
• 12 Labor: Piano Quintet in D Major: IV. Thema mit variationen. Moderato 11:33
• Trio for Clarinet, Cello & Piano Left Hand in E Minor:
• 13 Labor: Trio for Clarinet, Cello & Piano Left Hand in E Minor: I. Allegro comodo 11:21
• 14 Labor: Trio for Clarinet, Cello & Piano Left Hand in E Minor: II. Scherzo. Allegro con spirito 06:27
• 15 Labor: Trio for Clarinet, Cello & Piano Left Hand in E Minor: III. Adagio ma non troppo 03:53
• 16 Labor: Trio for Clarinet, Cello & Piano Left Hand in E Minor: IV. Thema mit variationen. Allegretto 09:07
• Total Runtime 02:11:53

Info for Josef Labor: Clarinet Quintets & Trios

The loss of one sense, it is said, sharpens the others. What the concert pianist, organist and composer Josef Labor lost in sight when he went blind from smallpox at the age of three must have been added to his ears. Labor was a Brahmsian (and a friend of the composer), but his compositions are characterised by an original style, shaped by his knowledge and love of early music. As a piano teacher, he taught Arnold Schönberg, Alma Schindler and Paul Wittgenstein. The connection to the Wittgenstein family also explains his many works for piano for left hand, including the two clarinet trios (the clarinet was Ludwig Wittgenstein's instrument), which are coupled here with his clarinet and his wind quintets.

Thorsten Johanss, clarinet Juri Vallentin, oboe Theo Plath, bassoon Premysl Vojta, horn Nina Karmon, violin Andreas Willwohl, viola Alexander Hulshoff, cello Olivier Triendl, piano

Oliver Triendl
One can hardly imagine a more devoted champion of neglected and rarely played composers than pianist Oliver Triendl. His tireless commitment – primarily to romantic and contemporary music – is reflected in more than 100 CD recordings. The scope of his repertoire is surely unique, comprising some 90 piano concertos and hundreds of chamber music pieces. In many cases, he was the first to present these works on stage or to commit them to disc.

As a soloist Triendl has performed together with many renowned orchestras. The list includes the Bamberg and Munich Symphonies, Munich Radio Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Radio Philharmonic, Gürzenich Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Weimar, German Radio Philharmonic, German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate, Munich, Southwest German, Stuttgart, Württemberg and Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestras, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne, Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, Tonkunstler Orchestra Vienna, Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Czech State Philharmonic, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish Chamber Philharmonic, Georgian Chamber Orchestra, St.Petersburg Camerata, Zagreb Soloists and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.

The avid chamber musician has concertized with fellow musicians such as Christian Altenburger, Wolfgang Boettcher, Thomas Brandis, Eduard Brunner, Ana Chumachenko, David Geringas, Clemens Hagen, Frans Helmerson, Hervé Joulain, Isabelle van Keulen, Rainer Kussmaul, François Leleux, Lorin Maazel, Marie Luise Neunecker, Paul Meyer, Sabine and Wolfgang Meyer, Pascal Moraguès, Charles Neidich, Arto Noras, Raphaël Oleg, Gustav Rivinius, Benjamin Schmid, Hagai Shaham, Christian Tetzlaff, Radovan Vlatković, Jan Vogler and Antje Weithaas. He performed with Apollon musagète, Artis, Atrium, Auryn, Carmina, Danel, Gringolts, Keller, Leipzig, Mandelring, Meta4, Minguet, Pražák, Schumann, Sine Nomine, Škampa, Talich and Vogler String Quartets as well as with excellent artists of the younger generation like Nicolas Altstaedt, Claudio Bohórquez, Mirijam Contzen, James Ehnes, Liza Ferschtman, David Grimal, Ilya Gringolts, Alina Ibragimova, Sharon Kam, Henning Kraggerud, Pekka Kuusisto, Johannes Moser, Daniel Müller-Schott, Alina Pogostkina, Christian Poltéra, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Baiba Skride, Valeriy Sokolov, Carolin and Jörg Widmann.

Triendl, a native of Mallersdorf, Bavaria, where he was born in 1970, and a prizewinner at many national and international competitions, studied under Rainer Fuchs, Karl-Heinz Diehl, Eckart Besch, Gerhard Oppitz and Oleg Maisenberg. He has concertized with success at festivals and in many of Europe’s major music centers as well as in North and South America, South Africa, Russia and Asia.

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