Description
The Bohemian-born Viennese composer Leopold Kozeluch published some five dozen sonatas and trios for piano, violin, and cello - a remarkable output. Inventive and skilful, he embraced the latest musical fashions without ever succumbing to the sort of triviality that caused so much music written for cultivated domestic music-making to be laid aside after a single performance. Over the past few years, Trio 1790 has selected roughly a quarter of these consistently delightful works - some dramatically charged, others enriched by folkloric elements - and recorded them for cpo with extraordinary sensitivity and refinement. Now, with this fifth volume, the series reaches its conclusion, bringing to a close a project that was never intended as an encyclopaedic survey. Each of the three carefully chosen Sonates en trio is a treasure in its own right, together forming a sparkling musical delight that listeners are unlikely to set aside after a single hearing.