Kungsbacka Piano Trio – R. Schumann: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kungsbacka Piano Trio – R. Schumann: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 (2020)
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It was in 1842, his ‘year of chamber music’ that Robert Schumann took on the combination of violin, cello and piano for the first time. He seems to have decided against releasing the resulting Fantasiestücke as a fully-fledged piano trio, however, but later returned to the work, revising it for publication in 1850. The model here is not the large-scale, quasi-symphonic trios of Beethoven or Schubert – instead Haydn’s characteristic trio textures spring to mind, especially in the first two movements where the cello largely follows the piano’s left-hand bass line. By the time the Fantasiestücke was published, Schumann had already written two ‘proper’ piano trios, No. 1 in D minor and No. 2 in F major. According to the composer the second of these ‘makes a friendlier and more immediate impression’ but it is in fact the D minor trio that has long been the more popular: passionate, mainly extrovert and bursting with fine thematic material it is the easiest to grasp on one hearing. Both works are filled to capacity with imitative writing, sometimes conspicuously so but often subtly as if on a subconscious level – an aspect that the members of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio, with more than 20 years of playing together, are able to make the most of.

Tracklist:
01. Kungsbacka Piano Trio – Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63: I. Mit Energie und Leidenschaft (11:57)
02. Kungsbacka Piano Trio – Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63: II. Lebhaft, doch nicht zu rasch – Trio (04:50)
03. Kungsbacka Piano Trio – Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63: III. Langsam, mit inniger Empfindung – Bewegter – Tempo I (06:22)
04. Kungsbacka Piano Trio – Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63: IV. Mit Feuer – Nach und nach schneller (08:01)
05. Kungsbacka Piano Trio – Fantasiestücke, Op. 88: I. Romanze (02:22)
06. Kungsbacka Piano Trio – Fantasiestücke, Op. 88: II. Humoreske (06:48)
07. Kungsbacka Piano Trio – Fantasiestücke, Op. 88: III. Duett (03:20)
08. Kungsbacka Piano Trio – Fantasiestücke, Op. 88: IV. Finale (05:53)
09. Kungsbacka Piano Trio – Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80: I. Sehr lebhaft (07:47)
10. Kungsbacka Piano Trio – Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80: II. Mit innigem Ausdruck – Lebhaft (07:57)
11. Kungsbacka Piano Trio – Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80: III. In mäßiger Bewegung (05:09)
12. Kungsbacka Piano Trio – Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80: IV. Nicht zu rasch (05:47)

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