Trio ZilliacusPerssonRaitinen - Three String Trios - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Streichtrio Berlin - String Trios [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/01/2011

In his vast compositional activity Ferdinand Thieriot manifested himself first and foremost as a worthy representative of the German Romantic movement. The well-known music theorist and critic Hermann Kretzschmar definitively stated in 1895 Inch... His contribution to Romantic music is characterized by the way it unfolds simply and naturally, by it's amicable elegance of mood, and in particular by the unsurpassed clarity of musical form and language.Inch In 2004 the Amadeus Verlag published his two string trios for violin, viola and violoncello in D major and in A minor. Both works are full of the lyricism so characteristic of Thieriot's writing, while also manifesting a refined precision of musical language, elegance of form and irreproachable taste. Undoubtedly the two string trios make a valuable addition to the international chamber repertoire. On this album, the works are interpreted by the successful Trio Lubotsky (Mark Lubotsky, Katarina Andreasson and Olga Dowbusch-Lubotsky)

The Trio Lirico has programmed three composers who lived and worked on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain until 1989 for Franziska Pietsch and Sophia Reuter this is music which - paraphrasing Goethe - they Inchsearch with their soulsInch. InchAs children, we both lived in East Berlin and were close friends alreadyInch, Franziska Pietsch explains about her violist colleague. InchWe therefore share personal history, a similar style of playing and a similar non-verbal way of communicating about this music. We just feel it.Inch This personal form of perception, into which the Bremen cellist Johannes Krebs blends empathetically, is not irrelevant for this music which becomes accessible not just via the text but also to a high degree via the cultural and political environment in which it was written. Of course Krzysztof Penderecki (b.1933), following the political liberalization of Polish music from 1956, had the opportunity to tie in with avant-garde developments in the West and to create his very own and unique modernism. On the other hand, his generational colleague Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) and the older Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) had, until the end of the Soviet Union, to assert their music in the face of massive harassment from the authorities which, in Weinberg's case, went as far as being arrested for anti-Semitic reasons. Born in Warsaw, Weinberg, who fled to the Soviet Union during the Second World War, kept in close contact with his friend and mentor Dmitri Shostakovich. Nonetheless, Weinberg's music is entirely unique, and his string trio of 1950 strikes a balance between popular tunes and references to Yiddish music. Alfred Schnittke, who found it hard gaining acceptance on account of his (Volga) German and Jewish heritage, composed his trio in 1985 for the birthday of his illustrious colleague Alban Berg - and, shortly after completing the work, suf