Release Date: 22 March 2019
Label: MDG
Packaging Type: Super Jewel Case (SACD)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 760623207063
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Once again the Trenkner-Speidel Piano Duo shows that a “reduction� for the piano does not necessarily mean limitations.
Mahler's well known Symphony No 5, from the single trumpet opening to the “Funeral March� at the beginning to the famous
Adagietto (the film music in Visconti’s 'Death in Venice') shows that the piano version requires the most delicate touch.
The meticulous use of the pedal is essential - music as if made to order for the Trenkner-Speidel Duo, which here has very advantageously applied its decades of experience with the transcription of symphonic scores.
Gustav Mahler authorised Singer’s piano version – but not before he had intervened to offer his own advice.
The resulting arrangement offers fascinating new perspectives on what is perhaps an exceedingly familiar work, captured in three dimensions on this 2+2+2 recording and presented
with painstaking precision on a Super Audio CD.
The result is an authentic fin-de-siècle atmosphere.
Tracklisting
Andrzej Szadejko, Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett, Cracow Singers
Lea Suter
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leopolder-Quartett, Munchner Klaviertrio
Various Artists
Holger Falk, Steffen Schleiermacher
Leipzig String Quartet
Chimaera Trio
Consort of Musicke, Emma Kirkby, Anthony Rooley
Piano Duo Trenkner/Speidel
