Release Date: 01 May 2010
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571177304
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
The Florestan Trio is one of Britian’s best-loved chamber groups, and its many Hyperion recordings are routinely acclaimed as benchmark versions of the repertoire. After delighting listeners and critics with two discs of Dvorak, the ensemble now further explores the Czech piano trio repertoire.
The three works on this CD cover the complete span of what is usually thought of as the Czech school of composition.
Smetana, regarded as the founding father, first showed the way to bring traditional dance and song into the mainstream of European composition, forging a national style. Eben, who died in 2007, was one of the most distinguished composers who carried this line to the present day. But, as these three contrasting pieces demonstrate, Czech composers
were subject to very different kinds of influence at different times. Smetana’s Piano Trio, an early work, shows more
influence from the mainstream giants of the time—particularly Schumann and Liszt—than it does from any ‘folk’
elements. By the time Martinu wrote his first Piano Trio, he was immersed in the exciting cosmopolitan culture of
twentieth-century Paris. And Petr Eben took the neoclassicism of Martinu and his contemporaries, and developed his
own individual approach to it.
Tracklisting
Mishka Rushdie Momen
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Takacs Quartet
Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Cinquecento
Andrey Gugnin
El Leon de Oro / Peter Phillips
Piers Lane
The Florestan Trio
The Florestan Trio
The Florestan Trio
The Florestan Trio
The Florestan Trio
The Florestan Trio
The Florestan Trio
