La Gaia Scienza - Schubert: Piano Trios (1998)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:42:35 | 399 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Winter & Winter | Catalog: 910018
This provides a most welcome sequel to La Gaia Scienza’s splendid account of the E flat Schubert Trio (Winter & Winter, 12/97). On that disc Federica Valli plays a Schantz fortepiano with an extremely pungent range of sonorities; here she exchanges it for an 1827 Conrad Graf instrument that is rather more suave and silvery, though recorded with equal immediacy. Indeed, the recording brings out most vividly the character of all three instruments – listen to the start of the Notturno, where the harp-like piano chords contrast most picturesquely with the grainy tone of the gut-strung strings.