Trio Metamorphosi

Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770, the son of a singer in the musical establishment of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and grandson of the old music director. The latter's fame was stressed in the family by Beethoven's mother, whose husband could never reach the standards so set, leading the composer to take charge of the family after her death, a responsibility that he took all too seriously. In 1792 he settled in Vienna with the encouragement of the Archbishop of Cologne, his patron, an ecclesiastic whose choice of profession was dictated in part by his parentage, as son of the Empress, and in part by weakness in his legs, which had ruled out a military career.

"Penso che siate un grande trio": così Antonio Meneses, violoncellista del celebre 'Beaux Arts Trio', definiva il Trio Modigliani, formato nel 2005 da Mauro Loguercio e dai due fratelli Angelo e Francesco Pepicelli.

Schumann’s G minor Piano Trio belongs to a group of three chamber works composed in rapid succession in the autumn of 1851, at a time when the composer’s relations with the Düsseldorf municipal orchestra, of which he had been director since 1849, had begun to sour. The Trio followed hard on the heels of Schumann’s First Violin Sonata in A minor; and its opening movement, with its passionately intense main subject and its driving 6/8 rhythm, clearly looks forward to that of the Sonata’s D minor successor which he began barely more than a fortnight later.

Dopo il CD di apertura dell’integrale beethoveniana per piano trio, accolto con grande favore da pubblico e critica, il viaggio prosegue con il rilascio di questo secondo disco che include il geniale trio degli “spettri”.
After the opening CD of the complete Beethoven piano trios, welcomed with great favor by the public and critics, the journey continues with the release of this second album which includes the brilliant "ghost" trio.

"Penso che siate un grande Trio." Antonio Meneses, violoncellista del celebre 'Trio Beaux Arts', parla così del Trio Metamorphosi, composto da Mauro Loguercio e dai due fratelli Angelo e Francesco Pepicelli.

A unique performance of its kind with a program of refined freshness, dedicated to the classicism of Haydn and Beethoven combined with pieces for trio to Arie and Lieder Scots of the two authors. A Trio characterized by a well-established artistic association to which the splendid voice of the mezzo-soprano Monica Bacelli, an international artist, is combined, at ease in the eighteenth-century repertoire as well as in the contemporary one.