Haydn: Piano Trios [Nos 14, 18, 21, 26 & 31]

 
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios [Nos 14, 18, 21, 26 & 31]
Trio Wanderer

[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 20 April 2018

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The great popularity of the piano trio enabled Haydn to explore countless formal and harmonic experiments; while the keyboard remains the central element in the musical structure, the strings give the discourse a subtle colouration, and the violin is often assigned independent musical ideas. This elegant three-way dialogue, conducted here by the Trio Wanderer, is as impressive for its originality as for its supreme stylistic virtuosity. Haydn was a past master at this little game, and still remains so centuries later!

GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Chamber

"The Trio Wanderer are wonderful and lively in this repertoire, their tempos are generally swifter than both the Beaux Arts Trio and the Van Swieten Trio, some 2 minutes in the Andante cantabile of No. 31 alone, but they never sound rushed. They produce a beautiful well-balanced tone and you get a full sense of ensemble; their sound is neither too romanticised or too baroque sounding, rather they have hit the happy medium, a performance that shines and is one I will return to often. Let us hope that they are allowed to shine in future recordings of Haydn. They are helped by a very good acoustic that helps produce a fairly natural sound, whilst the booklet notes are very good also." MusicWeb July 2018

"These are beautifully played performances, set in a generous enough acoustic (the Teldex Studio in Berlin) to give each instrument full voice...There is enough clarity around each instrument to make every line audible, which hasn't necessarily been the case in the Wanderer's previous recordings of Romantic music" Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2018

Tracks:

Trio Hob XV 14
in A flat Major / La bémol majeur / As-Dur
1 I. Allegro moderato
2 II. Adagio
3 III. Rondo. Vivace

Trio Hob XV 18
in A Major / La majeur / A-Dur
4 I. Allegro moderato
5 II. Andante
6 III. Allegro

Trio Hob XV 21
in C Major / Ut majeur / C-Dur
7 I. Adagio pastorale. Vivace assai
8 II. Molto andante
9 III. Finale. Presto

Trio Hob XV 26
in F sharp Major / Fa dièse majeur / Fis-Dur
10 I. Allegro
11 II. Adagio cantabile
12 III. Finale. Tempo di menuetto

Trio Hob XV 31
in E flat minor / mi bémol mineur / Es-Moll
13 I. Andante cantabile
14 II. Allegro [Jacob's Dream]