4260085534890

Brahms & Zemlinsky: Piano Trios

Feininger Trio

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Format: CD

Cat No: AVI8553489

Release Date:  20 August 2021

Label:  C-Avi

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  4260085534890

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

  • Description

    This is the fourth album of the Feininger Trio, members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

    Christoph Streuli in conversation with Volker Michael: "In its recording cycle, the Feininger Trio is pairing each of the three piano trios written by Brahms with a work by another Viennese composer: Alexander Zemlinsky, Ernst Krenek, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, respectively. Brahms's three piano trios are among the genre's crowning achievements, and the members of the Feininger Trio were interested in exploring how the piano trio genre developed in the master's wake.

    Younger composers drew on Brahms's legacy while opening a new window to Modernism and the 20th century, and that was the main criterion in choosing the three pairings. Biographical similarities among Korngold, Krenek, and Zemlinsky in their early years also played a major role in the Feininger Trio's selection. Despite major stylistic differences, a red thread in their the three composers' lives connects them all with Brahms. The connection was strong. As Alexander Zemlinsky put it, young composers attempted to outdo one another by writing in a vein as Brahmsian as possible. Young Zemlinsky knew Brahms and enjoyed the older composer's support. He was not Brahms's pupil, but Zemlinsky's early Piano Trio op. 3 has much in common with Brahms. It is more widely known as a clarinet trio: in 1896, Zemlinsky submitted it to a competition organized by the Vienna Tonkunstlerverein which required a chamber music work "using at least one wind instrument". (Excerpts from the booklet's liner notes by Volker Michael)

    CRITICAL ACCLAIM "The results of their playing are always a pleasure of the highest order." - Pizzicato

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101 (1886) - I. Allegro energico
      • 2. Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101 (1886) - II. Presto non assai
      • 3. Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101 (1886) - III. Andante grazioso
      • 4. Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101 (1886) - IV. Allegro molto
      • 5. Zemlinsky: Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 3 (Version for Violin, Cello and Piano) (1896) - I. Allegro ma non troppo
      • 6. Zemlinsky: Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 3 (Version for Violin, Cello and Piano) (1896) - II. Andante – Pocco mosso con fantasia
      • 7. Zemlinsky: Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 3 (Version for Violin, Cello and Piano) (1896) - III. Allegro