Abegg Trio - Klaviertrios - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio is really something! How can the listener to be kept agog for a full 46 minutes, then feel the return of the initial theme at the end of the last movement for what it is The end of a grandiose arch spanning the whole cosmos? Tempo proportions, phrasing and many other things are important here. The Abegg Trio went to the trouble of referring to the original manuscript and getting scientific he to check these proportions and to perform them faithfully just as Tchaikovsky intended them. Those who know the work are in for a surprise...

For twenty-five years Ulrich Beetz, Birgit Erichson and Gerrit Zitterbart have been making music together as the Abegg TrioInch and there can be no doubt that this is a very special recording which this trio, the winner of so many awards, has brought out to celebrate their silver jubilee. It is one which the Abeggs have obviously treated themselves to, because the Piano Trio op. 8 by Frederic Chopin, the Piano Trio op. 42 and the Novelettes op. 29 by Niels Wilhelm Gade are outstanding for the calm and meticulous care which has arisen from long practice with these works.

Herbert von Karajan - Falstaff [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/28/2008