Thomas Albertus Irnberger, David Geringas, Barbara Moser – It’s a Girl! (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:10 minutes | 2,39 GB | Genre: Classical
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The violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger, the cellist David Geringas and the pianist Barbara Moser play Piano Trios by female composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Amy Marcy Beach artfully combines French modernity with late romantic and American folklore elements in her Trio from 1938, Sonia Eckhardt-Gramatté’s work Ein wenig Musik impresses with originality, melodious ideas and diverse rhythmic components, Louise Farrenc’s Trio from 1857 shows that she was a contemporary of early Romanticism, but also dealt with Ancient music, Mélanie Hélène Bonis’ pieces for piano trio Soir and Matin were created in 1907 and reflect the different moods of a day, while Julia Frances Smith’s Cornwall Trio from 1966 expresses the funny, playful energy of the gifted composer that she was.
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Thomas Albertus Irnberger, David GerIngas, Lilya Zilberstein – Brahms: Piano Trios (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:44:50 minutes | 3,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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For this complete recording of Johannes Brahms’ piano trios, the internationally successful Salzburg violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger chose his usual top-class ensemble partners. Irnberger has long had an intense artistic friendship with the versatile cellist David Geringas, who, like the Russian-born pianist Lilya Zilberstein, can point to a number of recordings that are as long as they are impressive.The Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 can be heard here in the revised version, which closes the time gap of almost 25 years to the other two trios (No. 2 in C major, Op. 87 and No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101), since the revision took place after the completion of these works and thus at the peak of Brahmsian compositional art.
For the Trio for Clarinet, Violoncello and Piano in A minor, Op. 114, Brahms envisaged the viola as an alternative instrumentation from the very beginning, which is mastered by Irnberger as brilliantly as the violin.
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