Trio Con Brio Copenhagen

Trio Con Brio Copenhagen – The Passenger (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 4, 2024 · Comments off

This new album from one of today’s most popular and sought after piano trios delves into the emotive essence of two young composers–Mieczyslaw Weinberg and Franz Schubert–whose compositions offer an encounter with poignant reflections on life, mortality, and ethereal beauty.

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Trio Con Brio Copenhagen – Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 3 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 22, 2023 · Comments off

Trio con Brio presents its third volume of Beethoven’s Piano Trios: electrifying performances of music which reveals the composer at the peak of his powers. Beethoven’s Op.1 Piano Trios began with two works sure to charm Viennese audiences, but in his Piano Trio Op.1, No.3 in C minor, featured on this album, we begin to hear the radical, uncompromising Beethoven in music of volcanic force, contrasted with a sublime slow movement. The ‘Archduke’ Trio, Op.97, marked Beethoven’s final public performance as a pianist, but was also a turning-point in his output, its warm-hued nature combining heavenly serenity with earthy joie de vivre. “Glowing reports hold true. The Trio con Brio Copenhagen clearly occupies a lofty perch in today’s musical scene.” Washington Post “From the first note, Trio con Brio exudes class… both explosive and exquisitely intimate – aspects that this performance delivers with compelling panache.” Strad

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Trio Con Brio Copenhagen – Beethoven Piano Trios, Vol. 2 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 22, 2023 · Comments off

Following a highly praised first installment, Trio con Brio Copenhagen continue their journey through the piano trios of Beethoven with Volume II of their twentieth anniversary cycle. On this recording the youthful Op.1 No.2 is coupled with the trio in E flat major, Op.70 No.2, an altogether more intimate work and one full of the composer’s natural warmth.

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Trio con Brio Copenhagen – Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 22, 2023 · Comments off

Trio con Brio Copenhagen have played a central role in Scandinavias vibrant contemporary music scene for almost twenty years, and are celebrating this milestone anniversary by recording the complete piano trios of Beethoven for Orchid Classics, of which this is the much-anticipated first volume. A recipient of Denmarks prestigious P2 Artists Prize amongst many other awards, the Trio enjoys an intensive worldwide touring schedule as well as regular collaborations with many of the worlds most respected composers. Their recent recording for Orchid of trios by Tchaikovsky and Smetana was hailed by The Guardian (UK): Trio con Brio Copenhagen scale the Tchaikovskys heights with the verve their name suggests Founded in Vienna in 1999 with the concept of pairs coming together, the two Korean sisters, and Soo Kyung and Jens (who are now married), have since then been exploring the piano trio repertoire with freshness and curiosity as well as with respect and reflection.

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Trio con Brio Copenhagen – Shostakovich & Arensky: Piano Trios (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 21, 2023 · Comments off

Trio con Brio Copenhagen returns to Orchid Classics with a triptych of Russian piano trios: two works by Shostakovich framing music by Arensky. These Russian composers lived through turning points in their country’s history. Arensky died in 1906, the year in which Shostakovich was born, and their output charts the trajectory of Russian and Soviet political and artistic history during those years. Arensky’s ardent Piano Trio No.1 was written in 1894, when Russian Romanticism was at its peak. Inspired by young love, the 17-year-old Shostakovich wrote his Piano Trio No.1 Poème in 1923 in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), finding expression for strong personal emotions via a musical language influenced by film scores. Just over 20 years later, in 1944, Shostakovich wrote his Piano Trio No. 2. By making use of Jewish music for the first time, he gave the greatest tragedies of the age a voice, while at the same time creating a music that displays an irrepressible spark of life. Praise for Trio con Brio Copenhagen on Orchid: ‘… both explosive and exquisitely intimate’ – The Strad; ‘… an excellent performance all round, showcasing an airtight ensemble, but also these Danish-based musicians’ flair for coloristic detail.’ – Gramophone

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Trio con Brio Copenhagen – Poul Ruders: Piano Trio (World Premiere Recording) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 4, 2023 · Comments off

There are some musical forms that that have been so deﬁned within the classical canon that any new work seeking admission faces a formidable challenge. Take for example string quartets, a genre univer- sally recognized as the acid test of a composer’s mettle, Likewise, the Piano Trio, a form whose roots nominally go back as far as the Baroque, would become one of the preeminent musical genres of the Romantic era. And yet, many of the greatest additions to the repertoire are one-offs, with often no more than one or two within a composer’s oeuvre.

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Trio Con Brio Copenhagen – Bent Sørensen: The Island in the City (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 8, 2022 · Comments off

Recognized as one of the world’s finest piano ensembles, the Trio con Brio Copenhagen’s multifaceted members are not only performing artists who tour extensively, but also esteemed recording artists, artistic directors and educators. The Trio appears regularly at the world’s leading venues and concert series, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, Berlin’s Pierre Boulez-Saal, the Concertgebouw and many more. Trio con Brio is a recipient of the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Award, one of Denmark’s most prestigious prizes.

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