R. Schumann: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 Kungsbacka Piano Trio
Album info
Album-Release:
2020
HRA-Release:
07.02.2020
Label: BIS
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Artist: Kungsbacka Piano Trio
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63:
- 1 Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63: I. Mit Energie und Leidenschaft 11:50
- 2 Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63: II. Lebhaft, doch nicht zu rasch - Trio 04:44
- 3 Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63: III. Langsam, mit inniger Empfindung - Bewegter - Tempo I 06:21
- 4 Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63: IV. Mit Feuer - Nach und nach schneller 07:46
- Fantasiestücke, Op. 88:
- 5 Fantasiestücke, Op. 88: I. Romanze 02:20
- 6 Fantasiestücke, Op. 88: II. Humoreske 06:42
- 7 Fantasiestücke, Op. 88: III. Duett 03:16
- 8 Fantasiestücke, Op. 88: IV. Finale 05:39
- Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80:
- 9 Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80: I. Sehr lebhaft 07:39
- 10 Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80: II. Mit innigem Ausdruck - Lebhaft 07:48
- 11 Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80: III. In mäßiger Bewegung 05:03
- 12 Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80: IV. Nicht zu rasch 05:18
Info for R. Schumann: Piano Trios, Vol. 1
It was in 1842, his ‘year of chamber music’ that Robert Schumann took on the combination of violin, cello and piano for the first time. He seems to have decided against releasing the resulting Fantasiestücke as a fully-fledged piano trio, however, but later returned to the work, revising it for publication in 1850. The model here is not the large-scale, quasi-symphonic trios of Beethoven or Schubert – instead Haydn’s characteristic trio textures spring to mind, especially in the first two movements where the cello largely follows the piano’s left-hand bass line. By the time the Fantasiestücke was published, Schumann had already written two ‘proper’ piano trios, No. 1 in D minor and No. 2 in F major. According to the composer the second of these ‘makes a friendlier and more immediate impression’ but it is in fact the D minor trio that has long been the more popular: passionate, mainly extrovert and bursting with fine thematic material it is the easiest to grasp on one hearing. Both works are filled to capacity with imitative writing, sometimes conspicuously so but often subtly as if on a subconscious level – an aspect that the members of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio, with more than 20 years of playing together, are able to make the most of.
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Booklet for R. Schumann: Piano Trios, Vol. 1