Shostakovich: Piano Quintet & Seven Romances of Alexander Blok
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet & Seven Romances of Alexander Blok
Trio Wanderer / Ekatarina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano), Catherine Montier (violin), Christophe Gaugué (viola)
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 2 October 2020
When Shostakovich wrote his Piano Quintet in 1940, most of his chamber music had yet to be composed. Combining formal purity and freedom of tone, the quintet was hailed as a masterly creation and has remained his most successful chamber work. In the last years of a long and productive life, he composed a cycle of songs with piano trio, innovative in both form and structure, a hymn to art, friendship and nature possessing extraordinary evocative power.
To tackle these major works of the Twentieth Century, the Trio Wanderer has chosen partners of the calibre of Catherine Montier, Christophe Gaugué, and an expert in Russian vocal music, Ekaterina Semenchuk.
"A performance that is comprehensively responsive to the various different strands in the work. In a relatively unmannered interpretation, the Wanderers negotiate the Quintet's complex narrative with total conviction...The individual members of Trio Wanderer capture the cycle's contrasting moods of despair, passion, violence, mystery and gentle lyricism with playing of magnetic power and imagination." BBC Music Five Stars - Chamber Choice. Dec 2020
Tracks:
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok, Op. 127
