Trio con Brio Copenhagen - Ravel & Schubert - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Theme Andante Semplice 2. Variation 1 L'istesso Tempo 3. Variation 2 Vivace 4. Variation 3 Lento Pesante 5. Variation 4 Molto Vivace 6. Variation 5 Andante Molto Espressivo 7. Variation 6 Moderato Con Moto 8. I. Prelude Allegro Molto Agitato - Quasi Presto 9. II. Intermezzo Lirico in Modo Di Improvisazione - Molto Sostenuto 10. III. Minuetto Serioso - Sostenuto E Grave 11. IV. Bourre Allegro Giusto, Ma Con Brio 12. I. Allegro Con Brio 13. II. Sostenuto 14. III. Vivace 15. I. Lento E Grave - Molto Sostenuto 16. II. Allegretto - Vivo 17. I. Allegro Moderato 18. II. Lento in Modo D'una Sarabanda 19. III. Allegro Animato 20. No. 1. Allegro Non Troppo 21. No. 2. Lento 22. No. 3. Allegro Molto Vivace 23. I. Allegro Con Brio 24. II. Lento 25. III. Allegro

The album is a special tribute to the memory of Tomasz Zagorski, an outstanding opera and operetta singer of international renown who died prematurely and who contributed to the popularization of vocal art. A tenor who was equally at ease in great vocal and instrumental forms and in songs. The album contains 24 songs by Polish composers - the most popular, most liked and eagerly awaited by concert audiences. Tomasz Zagorski recorded them together with an excellent pianist of the young generation developing an international concert career, Jacek Kortus - he is an ideal chamber music partner here. Each of the miniatures is an elaborate story in which the textual layer determines dynamics, timbre, articulation and time management. The deep, warm, agile and expressive voice of the tenor guarantees that the listener will return to these interpretations more than once. Album Tracks 1. Before the Battle, Op. 74 No. 10 2. Bells, Op. 20 c from the cycle of Jaskowa dola, Opp. 21 a-c, 14 a-c, and 20 a-c 3. In the Still of the Evening from the cycle of Ten Songs, Op. 3 [No. 8] 4. Six Songs, Op. 18~No. 2. The Piper's Song 5. Arion 6. Whence the First Stars from the cycle of Six Songs, Op. 1 [No. 2] 7. Six Songs, Op. 18~No.4. By Mighty Waters 8. Keep Talking to Me from the cycle of Ten Songs, Op. 3 [No. 1] 9. Spring, Op. 74 No. 2 10. Mine Eyes Have Known Tears from the cycle of Six Songs, Op. 18 [No. 1] 11. To the Distant One 12. Fickle Maid, Op. 74 No. 5 13. For a Sorrowful Girl from the cycle of Six Songs, Op. 1 [No. 1] 14. Drinking Song, Op. 74 No. 4 15. I Remember Quiet Days, Golden, Bright from the cycle of Six Songs, Op. 1 [No. 5] 16. Ring, Op. 74 No. 14 17. Remembrance, Op. 74 No. 6 18. Two Auroras from the anthology of Songbook for Home Use, Book 2 19. Grey Horse from the cycle of Four Songs, Op. 7 [No. 2] 20. Lark Is Singing 21.

Trio con Brio Copenhagen returns to Orchid Classics with a triptych of Russian piano trios two works by Shostakovich framing music by Arensky. These Russian composers lived through turning points in their country's history. Arensky died in 1906, the year in which Shostakovich was born, and their output charts the trajectory of Russian and Soviet political and artistic history during those years. Arensky's ardent Piano Trio No.1 was written in 1894, when Russian Romanticism was at it's peak. Inspired by young love, the 17-year-old Shostakovich wrote his Piano Trio No.1 Poème in 1923 in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), finding expression for strong personal emotions via a musical language influenced by film scores. Just over 20 years later, in 1944, Shostakovich wrote his Piano Trio No. 2. By making use of Jewish music for the first time, he gave the greatest tragedies of the age a voice, while at the same time creating a music that displays an irrepressible spark of life. Inch... both explosive and exquisitely intimateInch (The Strad) Inch... an excellent performance all round, showcasing an airtight ensemble, but also these Danish-based musicians' flair for coloristic detail.Inch (Gramophone) Album Tracks 1. Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8 InchPoèmeInch 2. Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32 3. Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67