Trio Boccherini

Trio Boccherini – Hungarian String Trios (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:24 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS

This recording brings together four Hungarian composers who, each in their own way, contributed to the development of a new national musical style at the beginning of the twentieth century. They managed to write music that was respected internationally and that both nurtured them and raised the general standard of music in Hungary. Although Leo Weiner’s (the ‘Hungarian Mendelssohn’), and Erno Dohnanyi’s string trios were composed during their student years, both works have become significant milestones in the restricted repertoire for this instrumental combination. Elegant and sometimes reminiscent of Brahms, they also feature subtle touches of local folklore. Zoltan Kodaly, along with Bela Bartok one of the most important Hungarian musicians of the century, composed little chamber music but his Intermezzo, also an early work, is reminiscent of the folk music that the composer had begun to collect for his ethnomusicological research. The least familiar and youngest of the composers represented here, Laszlo Weiner, suffered a tragic fate. His Serenade, composed while he was studying with Kodaly, reveals the exceptional talent of a composer whose oeuvre is too small. Less ‘Magyar’ than the other works presented here, his Serenade is reminiscent of the intense and concentrated atmosphere of Viennese ‘modernist’ works.

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Trio Boccherini – Beethoven: String Trios, Op. 9 Nos. 1-3 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:38 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Genuin

With its first of two Genuin Aufnahmen, the Trio Boccherini proves that Beethoven’s String Trios are more than technical exercises by the composer along the way to writing quartets. Opus 9 is a rarely recorded and performed early work by the master, and yet they already reveal Beethoven in his entirety, as it were, in a tonally condensed form. The ensemble, comprising of members from three different continents, bring together diverse aspects of their musical experiences, culminating in this colorful yet unified interpretation.

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Trio Boccherini – Beethoven: String Trios, Opp. 3 & 8 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:21 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ludwig van Beethoven left only a few works for the string trio, and, unlike his quartets, they are played far too seldomly. The Trio Boccherini now presents a complete recording of these trios on the GENUIN label to draw attention to this. The program includes Beethoven’s first two works in this genre, the Trio op. 3 and the Serenade op. 8. Ranging between evening entertainment and the concert hall, between music from his youth and maturity, the works are in any case true Beethoven: full of spirit, profound and with great élan! The Trio Boccherini plays historically informed without being dogmatic, technically sophisticated without being hard-nosed – in other words, with passion and verve!

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