Release Date: 28 May 2012
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917253528
Description
The Israeli ensemble Trio Mondrian, now based in Berlin, is one of the most highly-praised young chamber groups on the international scene today. This recording features two of the most well-known trios from the 20th century - by Shostakovich and Ravel. The disc has already received a glowing review in the Gramophone prior to release.
In 2007 the Trio Mondrian won first prize at the prestigious International Chamber Music Competition in Trieste, Italy, as well as receiving the Special Prize for their interpretation of a Brahms Trio and the "Young Award". In addition, they have won the audience prize at the 2008 Bologna Festival. Marcello Abbado, the noted Italian musician and composer recently dedicated a new work to the group, titled "Trio Mondrian". Trio Mondrian performs regularly in Israel and Europe. Its first recording featured music by Brahms and Dvorak. In 2009 the trio was awarded a fellowship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust in London.
"The Trio Mondrian inhabits two very different worlds on this excellent disc...this performance [of Shostakovich] has terrific integrity, blending bitterness and irony with the elegiac, brooding quality...The Mondrians' colours and textures in the Ravel are luminous, with delicacy and gusto achieving a fine equilibrium." - Geoffrey Norris, Gramophone
Personnel: Ohad Ben-Ari (piano), Daniel Bard (violin), Hila Karni (cello)
Tracklisting
Narratio Quartet
Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens
Matteo Cicchitti, Musica Elegentia
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
La Sfera Armoniosa, Oscar Verhaar, Mike Fentross
Simona Marchesi, Bartolomeo Dandolo Marchesi
Ben Kim, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
Torleif Thedeen (cello) & Marianna Shirinyan (piano)
Oslo Kammerkor, Hakon Daniel Nystedt
Berit Norbakken (soprano) & Solmund Nystabakk (lutes)
Magnus Boye Hansen, Mathias Halvorsen
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Gavin Bryars
Vladimir Delman; Milan RAI Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Schippers; Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Rai; New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
