Gould Piano Trio - Clarinet Sonatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Two discs of treasures by one of Spain's greatest sopranos! She sings arias from Verdi's Aida; Boito's Mefistofele ; Rossini's Guillaume Tell ; Puccini's Madama Butterfly ; songs by Turina and Montsalvatge, and more!

Born in Austria and active in Vienna until 1938 when he emigrated to the USA before returning to Europe after the Second World War, Kurt Roger combined traditional, even archaic musical forms, with the adventurous harmonies of late Romanticism. His Clarinet Quintet, like that of Brahms, is a beautifully conceived late work, while the Variations on an Irish Air recalls his visit to Ireland in 1939. The Piano Trio displays Roger’s Classical Viennese roots and the Piano Sonata uses Baroque, Romantic and Modern elements in inventive combination.

In their second album for Resonus, the Gould Piano Trio returns with a recording of Schubert's Piano Trios. Apart from a very early single movement written when he fifteen years of age, Schubert came to the piano trio late in his short career and left only two full-length works in the form, written in 1827-8. By the time Schubert came to write his piano trios, the form had taken on a new stature thanks to work from composers such as Beethoven. Here, Schubert's Trios in B-flat major and the 'Notturno' in E-flat major are joined by the delightful Valses nobles D969, composed for solo piano and heard here in a world premiere recording in this arrangement for trio by Julius Zellner.