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FRANK BRIDGE
Piano Trio No 2 / Quartets Brian Hawkins (viola) / Allegri Quartet & Tunnell Trio [ Lyrita / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] "Frank Bridge's exploratory late chamber works can sound reticent, elusive in performance. Not here: fire, drama and intense fantasy abound, but there's no lack of refined control or shaping intelligence. Excellent recordings, Strongly recommended." |
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JOHN HARBISON
Harbison: Piano Trios / Gatsby Etudes / The Violist's Notebook / 10 Micro-Waltzes Amelia Piano Trio [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 26/Feb/2007 ] |
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JOHN HARBISON
Harbison: Piano Trios / Gatsby Etudes / The Violist's Notebook / 10 Micro-Waltzes Amelia Piano Trio [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Apr/2007 ] Harbison is one of America's most accomplished musicians, with four symphonies, three operas and a Pulitzer Prize-winning cantata to his credit. Of his Piano Trio No. 2, Harbison writes: '[It] makes little contact with the Mozart-to-Shostakovich... |
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Anat Fort Trio
And If [ ECM / CD - released 23/Aug/2010 ] |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios Vol. 5 Aquinas Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Haydn worked during a period that witnessed a great deal of stylistic change, including the evolution of keyboard instruments from the harpsichord to the pianoforte with its hammer action and greater dynamic flexibility. |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios Vol. 6 Aquinas Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Haydn's 30 Piano Trios were written at a time when the harpsichord was being replaced by the pianoforte and when a parallel change saw the emergence of sonata-allegro form. |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios Volume 8 Aquinas Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] As one of the most celebrated composers of the late 18th century, Joseph Haydn can lay claim to being 'father of the piano trio' alongside that of other genres established in his lifetime such as the symphony and the string quartet. |
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BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: Complete Piano Trios Arbor Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] "Some of the subtlest playing on the disc comes in the Third Piano Trio…The string duos of the second movement are wonderfully done." The Strad |
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Arden Trio
Saint-Saens/Ravel: Piano Trios [ Delos / CD ] |
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JOSEF SUK
Chamber Music (Incls 'Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 2') Atos Trio [ CPO / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] CPO's Josef Suk edition now turns to the chamber work of this magnificent late-romantic master. |
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MENDELSSOHN
Piano Trio op. 49 in D minor / Piano Trio op. 66 in C minor ATOS Trio [ CPO Records / CD - released 18/May/2011 ] "Three voices - one sound: The kind of pitch-perfect unanimity of phrasing, tone, feeling and interpretation that distinguishes the finest chamber ensembles." (Detroit Free Press) |
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Ayumi Tanaka Trio
Subaqueous Silence [ ECM / CD - released 29/Oct/2021 ] Subaqueous Silence, pianist Ayumi Tanaka's leader debut for ECM - following critically acclaimed releases with Thomas Strønen (Lucus, Bayou) - is a strikingly original statement. Tanaka met bassist Christian Meaas Svendsen and drummer Per Oddvar... |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios Volume 4 Bartolozzi Trio: Matthew Truscott (violin), Richard Lester (cello) & Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2014 ] Haydn's thirty Piano Trios were written between 1784 and 1797, reflecting both changes in keyboard instruments, as the piano replaced the harpsichord, and developments in sonata form. The Trios included here, dating from the earlier years of this... |
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ANTONIN DVORAK / FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Dvorak/Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Beaux Arts Trio, with Daniel Hope (violin), Menahem Pressler (piano), Antonio Meneses (violoncello) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 3/Jan/2005 ] |
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SCHUBERT / MOZART
Piano Quintet in A, D667 The Trout / Clarinet Quintet in A KV581 Beaux Arts Trio / Grumiax Quartet [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 18/Aug/2006 ] Not only are both the quintets by Mozart and Schubert recorded on this CD considered radiant pearls in the oeuvre of two outstanding composers, they also rank first place in a fictive listing of instrumental chamber music. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Quartets Op.25, 26 & 60 Beaux Arts Trio (with Walter Trampler - viola) [ Pentatone SACD / 2 SACD - released 11/Mar/2006 ] The first quartets written by Brahms were not strings quartets, as one might expect, but these piano quartets, with which Brahms refers to the works written by Mozart in this genre and on which he worked simultaneously |
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Beethoven Trio Ravensburg
Marschner: Piano Trios 2 & 5 [ Cpo / CD - released 31/Dec/2001 ] |
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JOSEPH CHRISTIAN WILLIBALD MICHL
Michl: Quartets Nos. 1-6 for Bassoon, 2 Violins and Cello Ben Hoadley (bassoon) / The Hall String Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Upon hearing a chamber piece by Joseph Michl in Munich in 1772 the English composer and music historian Charles Burney wrote, 'I hardly ever heard a composition that discovered more genius and invention.' |
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Benedikt Jahnel Trio
Equilibrium [ ECM / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "Equilibrium" is the ECM debut of a German/American/Spanish trio, which through frequent touring has grown into a remarkably tight and stylistically unique unit in recent years. Fuelled by the tension created through the contrasting styles of pianist... |
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Benedikt Jahnel Trio
The Invariant [ ECM / CD - released 3/Mar/2017 ] The trio with Spanish bassist Antonio Miguel and Canadian drummer Owen Howard has been an invariant in the life of Berlin based pianist Benedikt Jahnel. Hence the album title: The Invariant is issued as the group goes on tour to celebrate its tenth... |