Feininger Trio

Feininger Trio – Suk, Dvorak & Smetana: Piano Trios (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:38 minutes | 692 MB | Genre: Classical
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The works by Smetana, Dvořák and Suk featured on this album are characteristic examples of how the Czech late-19th century national style was reflected in the area of chamber music.
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Feininger Trio – Ravel & Debussy (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:45 minutes | 611 MB | Genre: Classical
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Founded in 2005, the Feininger Trio has dedicated itself to the intense, prolonged study of the piano trio. This release finds the ensemble navigating the works of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, two figures intimately associated with musical impressionism. Debussy wrote his Piano Trio in G Major at the young age of 18, and the piece abounds with the sonic surprises and experimentations indicative of a blossoming composer. In contrast, Ravel’s Piano Trio in A Minor demonstrates the artful considerations of sonority and balance of a composer well into his career. Also included in this release is Debussy’s playful Petite Suite for 4 Hand Piano, arranged for piano trio by David Riniker.
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Feininger Trio – Brahms & Krenek: Piano Trios (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:32 minutes | 461 MB | Genre: Classical
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This is the fifth album of the Feininger Trio: members of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra.

By combining Brahms’s piano trios with works in the same genre by his younger Viennese successors, we aim to open up new perspectives on Brahms’s output. The two works featured on the current release, Brahms’s Trio Op. 8 and Ernst Krenek’s Trio-Fantasia Op. 63, are essentially different in one particular way. In Brahms, the two string instruments often play together, either in octaves or in sixths, and the two are particularly closely intertwined in the B Major Trio (Op. 8). Krenek, however, handles the violin and the cello quite differenty: they respond to one another as in a question-and-answer game, or they take up their musical partner’s material and carry it a step further.

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Feininger Trio – Debussy, Ravel (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:45 minutes | 610 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CAvi-music

Founded in 2005, the Feininger Trio has dedicated itself to the intense, prolonged study of the piano trio. This release finds the ensemble navigating the works of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, two figures intimately associated with musical impressionism. Debussy wrote his Piano Trio in G Major at the young age of 18, and the piece abounds with the sonic surprises and experimentations indicative of a blossoming composer. In contrast, Ravel’s Piano Trio in A Minor demonstrates the artful considerations of sonority and balance of a composer well into his career. Also included in this release is Debussy’s playful Petite Suite for 4 Hand Piano, arranged for piano trio by David Riniker.

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Feininger Trio – Brahms & Korngold (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:36 minutes | 621 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CAvi-music

This is the fifth album from the Feininger Trio, members of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra. This is volume two of three albums to come and shows the relationship between Brahms and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

In its recording cycle, the Feininger Trio is pairing each of the three piano trios written by Brahmswith a work by another Viennese composer: Alexander Zemlinsky, Ernst Krenek, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, respectively. Brahms’s three piano trios are among the genre’s crowning achievements, and the members of the Feininger Trio were interested in exploring how the piano trio genre developed in the master’s wake.

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