The Florestan Trio, Susan Gritton - Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2; Seven Romances, Op. 127 (2011)
The Florestan Trio, Susan Gritton - Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2; Seven Romances, Op. 127 (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 244 Mb | Total time: 61:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67834 | Recorded: 2010
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 244 Mb | Total time: 61:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67834 | Recorded: 2010
Here's an excellent Shostakovich chamber program, combining music from different phases of the composer's career as well as introducing two fairly unusual works in combination with a great masterwork, the Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67. This work, written in 1944 as the tide had begun to turn against Hitler's armies in Russia, is perhaps the definitive musical response to the horrors of the Second World War. Its final movement, evoking klezmer music gradually overtaken by darkness, is almost unbearably moving. There are points on this recording where you feel it's very much British Shostakovich and could use a bit more emotional demonstrativeness, but the E minor trio benefits greatly from the grim precision imparted by the Florestan Trio. The major find here is the set of Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok, Op. 127, composed in 1967 for soprano and an ensemble of violin, cello, and piano, which all come together on only in the seventh song, "Music" (track 8). Both the vocal treatment and the piecemeal division of the instrument group look forward to the Symphony No. 14, Op. 135, composed two years later, but the Romances, which are a good deal more somber than the name would imply, have distinctive features of their own such as a twelve-tone row (but not serial organization) in the sixth song, "Mysterious Signs." Soprano Susan Gritton achieves a very well-controlled reduction of the sound of Shostakovich's thick Russian sopranos to these chamber dimensions and to the size of London's Henry Wood Hall. The opening Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8 ("Poème"), is a lovely curtain raiser in a single 12-minute movement. Composed when Shostakovich was 16, it has an absolutely characteristic main theme even if the second theme of its big sonata form is a bit softer. Highly recommended for any Shostakovich collection.–James Manheim
Performer:
Susan Gritton, soprano
The Florestan Trio
Tracklist:
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
01. Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8
Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok, Op. 127
02. I. Pesnya Ofelii 'Ophelia's Song'
03. II. Gamayun, ptitsa veshchaya 'Gamayun, the prophet bird'
04. III. Mï bïli vmeste 'We were together'
05. IV. Gorod spit 'The city sleeps'
06. V. Burya 'The Storm'
07. VI. Tayniye znaki 'Mysterious signs'
08. VII. Muzïka
Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
09. I. Andante
10. II. Allegro non troppo
11. III. Largo
12. IV. Allegretto
Exact Audio Copy V1.6 from 23. October 2020
EAC extraction logfile from 6. September 2022, 19:08
The Florestan Trio, Susan Gritton / Shostakovich - Piano Trios, Seven Romances
Used drive : ASUS SDRW-08U9M-U Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 11:31.64 | 0 | 51888
2 | 11:31.64 | 3:08.10 | 51889 | 65998
3 | 14:39.74 | 3:41.16 | 65999 | 82589
4 | 18:21.15 | 2:38.70 | 82590 | 94509
5 | 21:00.10 | 2:58.11 | 94510 | 107870
6 | 23:58.21 | 2:08.61 | 107871 | 117531
7 | 26:07.07 | 4:57.55 | 117532 | 139861
8 | 31:04.62 | 5:42.59 | 139862 | 165570
9 | 36:47.46 | 7:19.48 | 165571 | 198543
10 | 44:07.19 | 3:04.69 | 198544 | 212412
11 | 47:12.13 | 4:53.66 | 212413 | 234453
12 | 52:06.04 | 9:45.55 | 234454 | 278383
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename C:\\Shostakovich - Piano Trios, Seven Romances - The Florestan Trio.wav
Peak level 100.0 %
Extraction speed 1.9 X
Range quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 0B8FCDC5
Copy CRC 0B8FCDC5
Copy OK
No errors occurred
AccurateRip summary
Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 23) [72C8BDB3] (AR v2)
Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 23) [1CD71F8F] (AR v2)
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 23) [5F1E59D2] (AR v2)
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 23) [A9799907] (AR v2)
Track 5 accurately ripped (confidence 23) [FB0AF05A] (AR v2)
Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 23) [D296AEB8] (AR v2)
Track 7 accurately ripped (confidence 23) [5FD110EE] (AR v2)
Track 8 accurately ripped (confidence 23) [552115F2] (AR v2)
Track 9 accurately ripped (confidence 24) [59F4D117] (AR v2)
Track 10 accurately ripped (confidence 24) [E61D3671] (AR v2)
Track 11 accurately ripped (confidence 24) [DD0FE693] (AR v2)
Track 12 accurately ripped (confidence 24) [A9A67631] (AR v2)
All tracks accurately ripped
End of status report
–– CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.6
[CTDB TOCID: IMbKn.oGmgMdYfFTuRlbk6WPQug-] found
Submit result: IMbKn.oGmgMdYfFTuRlbk6WPQug- has been confirmed
Track | CTDB Status
1 | (26/26) Accurately ripped
2 | (25/26) Accurately ripped
3 | (26/26) Accurately ripped
4 | (26/26) Accurately ripped
5 | (26/26) Accurately ripped
6 | (26/26) Accurately ripped
7 | (26/26) Accurately ripped
8 | (26/26) Accurately ripped
9 | (26/26) Accurately ripped
10 | (26/26) Accurately ripped
11 | (26/26) Accurately ripped
12 | (26/26) Accurately ripped
==== Log checksum AE6992C378CFA0C88E356380C38EBC49DBBCB03E62EB5AAA4904C6F9A6C080B3 ====
The Florestan Trio, Susan Gritton - Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2; Seven Romances, Op. 127 (2011)
Thanks to the original releaser