034571178349

Piano Trios & Songs

D. Schostakowitsch

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA67834

Release Date:  01 May 2011

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571178349

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

  • Description

    After sixteen years of exceptional achievement and vast critical acclaim the career paths of the members of The Florestan Trio are diverging: the trio will dispand at the end of 2011 and this disc marks the end of their studio career. Audiences worldwide have become accustomed to the trios quality, elegance and virtuosity. They have recorded the major works of the piano trio repertoire for Hyperion and these interpretations are frequently viewed as benchmark versions. For this final recording the trio perform an all-Shostakovich programme comprising the two piano trios and the Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok, for which the trio is joined by the glorious soprano voice of Susan Gritton.
    Piano Trio No 1 was written in 1923, an astonishing achievement for a seventeen-year-old student. Piano Trio No 2, one of the composer’s greatest masterpieces, was premiered some twenty years later in 1944 and in this turbulent work we are presented with a huge array of dramatic juxtapositions.
    The Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok were the response to a request by Mstislav Rostropovich for repertoire he and his wife could perform together. This unusual and intimate sequence of songs conveys the sweetness and intensity of love, threatened by intimations of darkness.
    In this recording The Florestan Trio display their impeccable interpretative judgment, class and musicianship.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Piano Trio No. 1 in C Minor, 'Poème', Op. 8 - The Floreston Trio
      • 2. Pesnya Ofelii, 'Ophelia's Song' - Susan Gritton/The Floreston Trio
      • 3. Gamayun, Ptitsa Veshchaya, 'Gamayun, the Prophet Bird' - Susan Gritton/The Floreston Trio
      • 4. Mï Bïli Vmeste, 'We Were Together' - Susan Gritton/The Floreston Trio
      • 5. Gorod Spit, 'The City Sleeps' - Susan Gritton/The Floreston Trio
      • 6. Burya, 'The Storm' - Susan Gritton/The Floreston Trio
      • 7. Tayniye Znaki, 'Mysterious Signs' - Susan Gritton/The Floreston Trio
      • 8. Muzïka - Susan Gritton/The Floreston Trio
      • 9. Andante - The Floreston Trio
      • 10. Allegro Non Troppo - The Floreston Trio
      • 11. Largo - The Floreston Trio
      • 12. Allegretto - The Floreston Trio