SCHUMANN Trio No 1 DVOŘÁK Piano Trio No 4
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Composer or Director: Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Antonín Dvořák
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Nimbus
Magazine Review Date: 02/2018
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 71
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: NI5968
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Piano Trio No. 1 |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Robert Schumann, Composer Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch |
Andante con moto |
Edvard Grieg, Composer
Edvard Grieg, Composer Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch |
Piano Trio No. 4, 'Dumky' |
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch |
Author: Andrew Farach-Colton
In Grieg’s recently rediscovered Andante (the slow movement of a projected trio), again, the trio play expressively. But this piece was written as a lament for the death of the composer’s daughter; and when one hears the obsessive, vertiginous character wrenched from the music by the Grieg Trio (Simax, 8/09), this new account, too, feels inadequate.
Happily, the Shaham Erez Wallfisch’s performance of Dvořák’s Dumky Trio is an utter delight – one of the best on record, in fact, which is saying a lot. Throughout, they have fun with the music and make the most of its soulfulness while always maintaining a tight rhythmic and structural grip. Listen to how they pounce on the down-beats of the first movement’s Allegro, allowing them to spring joyously from phrase to phrase. The dotted rhythms in the second dumka have an articulate expressivity that’s almost like speech, while the third deftly balances earthiness and delicacy. And in the finale, there’s light-hearted ferocity that, heard in concert, would surely bring down the house.
Nimbus’s recording places the listener close to the musicians, as if one had front-row seats in a small hall. If you have a soft spot for the Dumky Trio, this disc is worth your while, though its couplings are not nearly as delectable.
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