Release Date: 17 August 2018
Label: Avie
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 822252239027
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
AVIE continues its acclaimed series of recordings of the music of Hans Gal with the newly formed Briggs Piano Trio performing Gal's lyrical Piano Trio in E and his witty Variations on a Popular Viennese Tune, alongside Shostakovich's harrowing Piano Trio in E minor.
This latest AVIE release brings together two of today's most eminent Gal interpreters, Sarah Beth Briggs and Kenneth Woods with violin virtuoso David Juritz, for a recording of Gal's breathtakingly lyrical Piano Trio in E major, Op.18 and his witty Variations on a Popular Viennese Tune, Op.9. Gal's music and destiny was shaped by war and political upheaval, as was that of Dmitri Shostakovich, whose Piano Trio in E minor, Op.67, one of the monuments of 20th century chamber music, is a harrowing souvenir of the times in which it was written.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"beautifully poised, enchanting accounts" – Gramophone, Critics' Choice 2016 (on Sarah Beth Briggs' and Kenneth Woods' recording of Hans Gál's Piano Concerto and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22, AV2358)
"Briggs is an artist with prowess and personality … [her] infectious pianism is impossible to resist" – MusicWeb International
"Woods holds his own against such wonders as Sawallisch, Celibidache, Giulini and immediately becomes a favourite for this delectable work." – Classical Source (on Woods' recording of Schumann's Symphony No. 3, AV2230)
"Refreshingly spontaneous" – BBC Music Magazine (on David Juritz's Vivaldi Four Seasons)
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
