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Release Date: Sunday 20 November 2011
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It is not known for sure why Haydn chose the flute over the more usual violin in these three trios. Possibly it was to appeal to English or aristocratic taste for the instrument. Whatever the reason, there is no lessening of his profuse lyricism and contagious wit in these charming works. Both the D major and G major Trios end with virtuosic and witty pay-offs, whilst the F major is rather different; a more symphonically oriented work that fuses seriousness and fun in equal measure.
"…Uwe Grodd, Martin Rummel and Christopher Hinterhuber…bring a sense of appropriate social occasion to this unfailingly sunny and no-nonsense music. Significantly, all trios are bright major-key affairs and very much centred around Hinterhuber's rippling piano. From the start, one is caught by the ease and rightness with which these men pass the music around in the opening movement of the G major work. In its Andante, Haydn surprises with the occasional gruff chord, but one most remembers the smooth shadings in melodious thirds and sixths.
Grodd has a way with semiquavers, whipping them through the texture with an elegant nonchalance; all three musicians enjoy the insinuating chromaticism that occasionally snakes through the otherwise unruffled major ambience." NZ Herald
Flute Trio No. 16 in D major, Hob.XV:16
Flute Trio No. 15 in G major, Hob.XV:15
Flute Trio No. 17 in F major, Hob.XV:17