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Mozart: Complete String Trios & Duos
from: Philips
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Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak: Piano Trios
from: Vox (Classical)
: :The K-L-R Trio's brief tenure with Vox produced these recordings of Romantic chamber-music masterpieces. This is an exceptionally virtuosic ensemble, made up of three soloists who have devoted part of every year to performing together for a couple of decades. As a result, their performances are extremely powerful yet very well integrated, certainly a desirable combination in repertoire like this. They even do a very idiomatic job of playing Dvorák, while their Brahms and Mendelssohn are really superb. Not only are these performances far above the normal standard for budget recordings, ...
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Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 [Hybrid SACD]
from: Pentatone
: : Mendelssohn wrote his first trio, Op. 49, when he was 30, the second, Op. 66, five years later. Among the most beloved favorites of the repertoire, they are heard so frequently--especially the first one--that one would think all interpretive choices had been exhausted. But there is something special about hearing them performed by musicians who are even younger than the composer was when he wrote them. The three players on this record, all of whom have flourishing solo careers, are in their 20s. They bring to this familiar music the ...
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Schoenberg: Transfigured Night
from: Sony
: : Mendelssohn wrote his first trio, Op. 49, when he was 30, the second, Op. 66, five years later. Among the most beloved favorites of the repertoire, they are heard so frequently--especially the first one--that one would think all interpretive choices had been exhausted. But there is something special about hearing them performed by musicians who are even younger than the composer was when he wrote them. The three players on this record, all of whom have flourishing solo careers, are in their 20s. They bring to this familiar music the ...
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Vivaldi: Musica per mandolino e liuto
from: Naive
: : Mendelssohn wrote his first trio, Op. 49, when he was 30, the second, Op. 66, five years later. Among the most beloved favorites of the repertoire, they are heard so frequently--especially the first one--that one would think all interpretive choices had been exhausted. But there is something special about hearing them performed by musicians who are even younger than the composer was when he wrote them. The three players on this record, all of whom have flourishing solo careers, are in their 20s. They bring to this familiar music the ...
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Dvorak: Works for String Quartets, Vol. 5
from: Naxos
: :Cypresses was originally a song cycle. Dvorák later transcribed 12 of the 18 songs for string quartet. The result is as purely lyrical, undemanding, and lovely as anything in the chamber music literature. In a way it's Chamber Music Lite, with no complex development to follow, just a constant flow of melody. But who can complain when the melodies are as beautiful as these? The Quartet Movement--which does have development--is also lyrical, and it's so effective that one wonders why the composer never finished the Quartet he began. The Waltzes and ...
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Cantatas (5 CDs)
: :Cypresses was originally a song cycle. Dvorák later transcribed 12 of the 18 songs for string quartet. The result is as purely lyrical, undemanding, and lovely as anything in the chamber music literature. In a way it's Chamber Music Lite, with no complex development to follow, just a constant flow of melody. But who can complain when the melodies are as beautiful as these? The Quartet Movement--which does have development--is also lyrical, and it's so effective that one wonders why the composer never finished the Quartet he began. The Waltzes and ...
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CBS Dinner Classics: Cocktail Party
from: Sony
: :Cypresses was originally a song cycle. Dvorák later transcribed 12 of the 18 songs for string quartet. The result is as purely lyrical, undemanding, and lovely as anything in the chamber music literature. In a way it's Chamber Music Lite, with no complex development to follow, just a constant flow of melody. But who can complain when the melodies are as beautiful as these? The Quartet Movement--which does have development--is also lyrical, and it's so effective that one wonders why the composer never finished the Quartet he began. The Waltzes and ...
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Takemitsu: Chamber Music
from: Naxos
:Album Description:Robert Aitken invited Takemitsu to Canada for performances of his chamber music in the New Music Concerts series in 1975 and 1983. Their close friendship led to the composition of a number of works which were not only personally performed for Takemitsu by the musicians on this recording but benefited from his interpretative insights. The Night from Toward the Sea, one of several works on the subject of water, a continuing theme in the composer’s works, received its first performance in Toronto in 1981 by Robert Aitken and the Cuban ...
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A Copland Celebration Vol. 2
from: Sony
:Album Description:Robert Aitken invited Takemitsu to Canada for performances of his chamber music in the New Music Concerts series in 1975 and 1983. Their close friendship led to the composition of a number of works which were not only personally performed for Takemitsu by the musicians on this recording but benefited from his interpretative insights. The Night from Toward the Sea, one of several works on the subject of water, a continuing theme in the composer’s works, received its first performance in Toronto in 1981 by Robert Aitken and the Cuban ...
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