Release Date: 05 April 2019
Label: Avie
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 822252240528
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
The Horszowski Trio, named for the late, legendary pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski, debuts on AVIE with impassioned accounts of Robert Schumann's Complete Piano Trios.
The Horszowski Trio debuts on AVIE with the complete piano trios by Robert Schumann, music that the ensemble is as passionate about as the composer's Romantic works exude. Schumann's works for piano trio were written within a decade of each other yet represent three distinct periods in the composer's life, the emotional span of the four works reflected in Schumann's all-too-short 46-year life span.
Years of friendship have sealed a deep bond between the members of the Horszowski Trio, which in turn has led to performances of exhilarating expressive freedom. Grammy-nominated violinist Jesse Mills first performed with Raman Ramakrishnan, founding cellist of the award-winning Daedalus Quartet, when they were children at the Vermont-based Kinhaven Music School. Years later they met pianist Rieko Aizawa who was the last student of the trio's namesake, the late, legendary pianist, Mieczyslaw Horszowski.
Since their debut in 2011 at New York City's Rockefeller University, the Horszowski Trio has performed throughout North America, Asia and India. The programmes on the trio's extensive 2019 touring schedule, which include a Wigmore Hall debut, feature Schumann's expansive works. Based in New York City, the Horszowski Trio is Artist-in-Residence at the Longy School of Music of Bard College.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"a highly accomplished group ... I long to hear more"
– Gramophone
"impressive, lithe, persuasive" – The New York Times
"the most compelling American group to come on the scene"
– The New Yorker
PERFORMANCE DATES
31 March 2019 - London - Wigmore Hall
Record Review on BBC Radio 3 selected the Horszowski Trio recording of Schumann's Piano Trio No 1 in D minor as their Building a Library top recommendation: 'This is a very mature sound I find from this trio, and I love the pacing of the space that they give to each phrase. They drive right to the end with momentum and control ... we're tumbling forward ... and just heading towards some amazing bright light. It's a fantastic arrival'
Tracklisting
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Christopher Tyler Nickel, Sarah Jackson
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Bruce Wolosoff
Charles Owen
Proteus Ensemble; Stephen Shellard
Benjamin Hochman
Apollo's Fire; Jeannette Sorrell
Karolos
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Engegard Quartet, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Flute Alors
Louise Bessette
Jonas Batstrand, Jorn Fossheim
