Hummel: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 (nos 1, 4, 5)

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JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 (nos 1, 4, 5)
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Release Date: Monday 2 February 2015

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Trained by Mozart and Haydn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel enjoyed the highest reputation as a composer and virtuoso performer of his day. His piano trios are characterised by their richness of sonority, good humour and flowing melodic inventiveness. While the influence of Beethoven can be heard, Hummel's own creative voice is highly distinctive. The early Piano Trio, Op. 12 exudes the atmosphere of Vienna at the turn of the 19th century, and the Grand Trio is a concerto in all but name, the demands on the pianist expressly designed for its dedicatee Johann Baptist Cramer.

"If your musical tastes err towards the sunny, optimistic and playful rather than the heavyweight, gloomy and probing, let me direct you to the (seven) piano trios of Hummel...I guarantee you won't be disappointed." Gramophone Magazine, July 2015

Tracks:

Piano Trio No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 12
Piano Trio No. 4 in G Major, Op. 65
Piano Trio No. 5 in E Major, Op. 83