Martinu: Complete Piano Trios
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BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: Complete Piano Trios
Arbor Piano Trio
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 20 November 2012
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Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů excelled in chamber music and made a substantial contribution to the piano trio repertoire of the twentieth century, his keen ear for balance and sonority finding here a perfect medium for his music. Trio No. 1, Cinq pièces brèves, written in an appealing and virtuosic neo-classical style in Paris in 1930, was admired by Stravinsky. Trios Nos. 2 and 3, composed in America in 1951, are more ambitious in scope and notable for their rhythmic verve and unpredictability, ingratiating themes and elegiac slow movements.
"The Arbor Trio brings a strong sense of line and lyricism to Martinů's Cinq pièces brèves…
The fourth-movement Allegro moderato is great grotesque fun, and the finale ebbs and flows neatly as it swirls hectically along, its technical demands handled with aplomb…The five Bergerettes…receive fluid and sensitive playing that is often delicate as well. There is a degree of simple majesty to the central Andantino, and the whimsical Allegro that follows is deliciously light and airy.
Some of the subtlest playing on the disc comes in the Third Piano Trio…The string duos of the second movement are wonderfully done." The Strad
Tracks:
Piano Trio No. 1 'Cinq pièces brèves', H. 193
Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor, H327
Bergerettes - Five Pieces for Violin, Cello and Piano
Piano Trio No. 3 in C major, H332
