Release Date: 17 July 2020
Label: C-Avi
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 4260085534807
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
First Prize and Audience Prize winner of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2015, the Linos Piano Trio is increasingly recognised as one of Europe's most creative and dynamic trios. They are delighted to present their new album of CPE Bach's Complete Piano Trios.
In Hamburg, 1775, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, by then an internationally celebrated and well-connected figure, was surely aware of the genre's popularity. After all, his half-brother, the London-based Johann Christian, was central in promoting this new culture of domestic piano playing.
Responsive to the market demand, C.P.E. Bach came to an agreement with the London publisher Bremner to publish the following year Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord or Pianoforte accompanied by Violin and Violoncello (Wq. 89). Despite the title, Bach referred to these works at times as Trios, at times as Sonatas, and sometimes even as "Trios (which are also Solos)".
It seems he didn't really know what to call them, as they sat in between his previously clear categories of Trios (in the Baroque trio-sonata format of two equal instrumental parts accompanied by basso continuo), keyboard solo works, and the "Soli" (works for various solo instruments to be accompanied by the continuo). His ambivalence towards this fashionable new genre was evident in a letter where he contemptuously referred to the accompanied sonatas as a "non- or half-entity".
But regardless, the publication was exceedingly successful, and Bach enjoyed what he probably considered a nice bonus to his usual duties of writing religious choral works: "I am having more luck than I have the right to expect. People are crazy about my modest concoction, from which one may profit." He published two further sets (Wq. 90 and 91) with Breitkopf in Germany in 1776 and 1777, to great success.
Business acumen aside, these works reveal C.P.E. Bach at the height of his career and are full of invention, expression, and shocking surprises that at times surpass what even Beethoven might dare to do..….." (Excerpt from the liner notes by LINOS PIANO TRIOS)
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"These are lively performances which are sensible to the myriad nuances of this composer's idiom." 4 STARS, BBC Music Magazine
MusicWeb International Recommended Recording "The finished product comprises more than two hours of music of great variety, with so many surprises along the way, and is already more than enough to keep the listener totally engaged throughout. The fact, though, that it is also so well performed, and in the true spirit of chamber music playing, where social interaction and the pure fun and enjoyment of making music together are so very evident, now seems like some mouth-watering icing on an already lip-smacking confection."
Tracklisting
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
Kathrin Zukowski, KammerMusikKoln
Katharina Konradi, Catriona Morison, Ammiel Bushakevitz
Antje Weithaas, Denes Varjon
Premysl Vojta, Florence Millet, Ye Wu
Herbert Schuch, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
Sandrine Cantoreggi & Sheila Arnold
Nino Gvetadze
Linos Piano Trio
Linos Piano Trio
