Schumann: The Schumann Trilogy - Complete Concertos & Piano Trios [plus bonus Blu-ray]

 
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: The Schumann Trilogy - Complete Concertos & Piano Trios [plus bonus Blu-ray]
Isabelle Faust (violin) Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (piano) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado

[ Harmonia Mundi / 4 CD/Blu-ray Disc ]

Release Date: Friday 14 June 2024

These albums left their mark on the Schumann discography: performing the works on period instruments, the artists suddenly revealed unexpected textures and sonorities.

This box set assembles the three discs for the first time, with a bonus Blu-ray of the three concertos and the Overture, Scherzo and Finale in concert at the Berlin Philharmonie.

'In this performance, Isabelle Faust brings tremendous insight and an infinite variety of colour to the hugely demanding solo part. The great advantage of presenting Schumann on period instruments is brilliantly demonstrated here.' (BBC Music Concerto Recording of the Month June 2015)

"Faust and her colleagues have the knack of teasing out [the Piano Trio's] lyrical beauties and giving all the music real lightness and transparency." (Guardian)

'[T]he use of an early 19th-century fortepiano, here a Streicher of 1847, brings textural clairty, enhanced by the exceptionally subtle and sensitive dialogue between the two superb string players.' (BBC Music)

Tracks:

Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110
Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23
Piano Trio No. 2 in F major, Op. 80
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

Blu-ray:
The Three Concertos plus..
Overture, Scherzo, and Finale, Op. 52

Box set The Schumann trilogy | I Faust | J-G Queyras | A Melnikov