BRAHMS; LISZT; SCHOENBERG Works for Piano Trio
Snapshot of an artform in flux from Hamburg trio Boulanger
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Composer or Director: Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Arnold Schoenberg
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Profil
Magazine Review Date: 05/2012
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 59
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: PH11042
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Piano Trio No. 3 |
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Boulanger Trio Johannes Brahms, Composer |
Tristia |
Franz Liszt, Composer
Boulanger Trio Franz Liszt, Composer |
Verklärte Nacht |
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Boulanger Trio |
Author: Peter Quantrill
These new ideas of rhythmic dislocation and harmonic expansion demand risks, and the Boulanger Trio (formed in 2006, based in Berlin) happily takes them. The peaks of Brahms’s first movement are scaled with utmost vehemence, the second theme surges on without let-up, the development is seized with nervous violence. Their reluctance to hold back lends an oppressive compulsion to Liszt’s late, despair-filled transformation of Vallée d’Obermann far removed from the sublime contemplation of the original, so that the breadth of Verklärte Nacht arrives as natural if unexpected relief. Memories of Tristan, ink-smeared or not, are banished by Steuermann’s transcription and the Boulanger players to create an uncanny, vitally charged chamber precursor of the Op 9 Chamber Symphony. It’s a gripping disc from start to finish. But the violinist must do something about her sniff, which is ubiquitous.
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