Piano Trio

The Rautio Piano Trio returns to Resonus with this second volume of Beethoven’s Piano Trios, recorded on period instruments. The album features his Op. 11 trio – ‘Gassenhauer' – together with his Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 3, showcasing the young composer’s early mastery of the genre; and his virtuosic Variations for Piano Trio Op. 44.

The Leonore Piano Trio revivifies three works by a figure already—and unfairly—consigned to the musical footnotes of history before he died, and yet whose music is bound to charm in such persuasive performances as these.

This is the first few singles released from the upcoming album, which will also feature Dvořák’s ‘Dumky’ trio. The album will be called “Bohemian Rhapsodies” and it is based on this group’s repertoire they performed at the Marina Korendfeld Concert Series. It’s a series that allows young musicians to perform in front of an audience, and the Oliver Schnyder Trio performed in May this year. Featuring Oliver Schnyer (piano) and Andreas Janke, violinist and first concertmaster of the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, and Benjamin Nyffenegger, its solo cellist.

This is the first few singles released from the upcoming album, which will also feature Dvořák’s ‘Dumky’ trio. The album will be called “Bohemian Rhapsodies” and it is based on this group’s repertoire they performed at the Marina Korendfeld Concert Series. It’s a series that allows young musicians to perform in front of an audience, and the Oliver Schnyder Trio performed in May this year. Featuring Oliver Schnyer (piano) and Andreas Janke, violinist and first concertmaster of the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, and Benjamin Nyffenegger, its solo cellist.

One of Britain’s leading composers and educators of his day, Stanford considered chamber music an essential representation of ‘absolute music’. His mastery of extended instrumental forms truly comes of age in the First Piano Quartet, a work which breathes a confidence and fluency to rival Brahms. An adventurous harmonic palette distinguishes the Second Piano Trio, the Beethovenian pathos of its slow movement contrasting with the defiant turbulence of its cyclically related outer movements. The Gould Trio is ‘magnificently stylish’ (Gramophone) in their recording of Stanford’s First Piano Trio (8572452).

Electrifying Piano Trio Performances in the great Russian musical tradition!

In 1799, after having made a name for himself with major compositions in the genres of the piano trio, piano sonata, violin sonata, and string quartet, but before finishing his first symphony, Beethoven wrote a work for mixed strings and winds. This piece, the Septet op. 20, would become one of his most popular compositions, with a large number of arrangements, including the one for piano trio on this disc. The form is clearly related to the divertimenti by Mozart, with six movements that alternate fast and slow tempos.

A triple album series, pairing Beethoven’s original piano trios with arrangements of one of his orchestral works Vol. 2 Trio No. 6 Op. 70/2 Symphony No. 2: standard vs. “domestic” music

Schubert's monumental e flat Trio op. 100 (D 929) is one of the longest chamber music pieces. Nobody but Robert Schumann has better described the atmosphere of op. 100, full of "repressed fury", "passionate sickness", "deep anguish". Particularly well known is the slow movement, chosen by Stanley Kubrick in 1975 as soundtrack of his famous movie "Barry Lyndon".