Trio Imàge - Trio Imàge plays Dvořák, Fall & Dyakov (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

With its third album, the Trio Imàge is expanding its still young but all the more exciting discography. On its début CD in 2014, it recorded the three piano trios by Mauricio Kagel for the first time and in 2015 made the première recording of chamber music by the Strauss contemporary Hans Sommer, all with its wonted brilliance. Now, for its third recording, it has chosen three different composers. Antonín Dvořák's great Piano Trio in F Minor opens this original collage of works and lays the ground for the first recording of the Piano Trio in A Minor by Siegfried Fall, a particularly valuable discovery by the musicians. The CD closes with another première recording: “Perperikoana” (2015) by Marek Dyakov, a Bulgarian painting in sound that the composer dedicated to the trio.

Dvořák's op. 65 piano trio was written at a time when the composer was shifting from a phase where his works were largely dominated by Slavic elements to a more “international” sound with traditional influences. Stylistically, Dvořák took his cue from the works of his friend and mentor, Johannes Brahms, while unleashing a flow of brilliant melodies in all three parts that carry the work from its serious beginning through many magical moments to the hopeful finale.

With its chance discovery some time ago of the practically-forgotten Piano Trio in A Minor by Siegfried Fall, the Trio Imàge pulled off a veritable coup. Although this talented pupil of Max Bruch won the prestigious Mendelssohn Prize in Berlin with his composition in 1899, he was never really able to establish himself in the music scene, unlike his brothers Leo and Richard, who were successful composers of operettas and popular music. His life, which was nonetheless devoted to music and influenced by his Jewish roots, was brutally extinguished by the Nazis in a concentration camp in 1943.

TRACKLIST

1. Trio Imàge - Piano Trio No. 3, in F Minor, Op. 65: I. Allegro ma non troppo
2. Trio Imàge - Piano Trio No. 3, in F Minor, Op. 65: II. Allegro grazioso
3. Trio Imàge - Piano Trio No. 3, in F Minor, Op. 65: III. Poco adagio
4. Trio Imàge - Piano Trio No. 3, in F Minor, Op. 65: IV. Finale. Allegro con brio
5. Trio Imàge - Piano Trio , in A Minor, Op. 4: I. Allegro ma non troppo
6. Trio Imàge - Piano Trio , in A Minor, Op. 4: II. Adagio
7. Trio Imàge - Piano Trio , in A Minor, Op. 4: III. Rondo
8. Trio Imàge - Perperikoana (After Old Bulgarian Legends)



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