Dartington Piano Trio - Fanny Mendelssohn & Clara Schumann Piano Trios [IMPORT]
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Artist: Dartington Piano TrioEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Music Label: Hyperion UK
Soundtracks:
- Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17: Allegro
- Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17: Scherzo and Trio
- Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17: Andante
- Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17: Allegretto
- Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11: Allegro molto vivace
- Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11: Andante espressivo
- Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11: Lied: Allegretto
- Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11: Finale: Allegretto moderato
Music reviews of Fanny Mendelssohn & Clara Schumann Piano Trios [IMPORT]
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Rating: 5 Stars
This disc is a 2001 reissue of recordings originally made in 1988 and first marketed by Hyperion in the following year. As is often the way of such matters, I had never heard Clara Schumann's piano trio until two days ago, and now here is another fine performance of the work while it is still fresh in my mind.
So far as I'm concerned these are piano trios by two little-known romantic composers, not trios by someone's wife and someone else's sister. Fanny Mendelssohn was older than her brother and therefore had a start on him: Clara Wieck showed precocious musical talent that her ambitious and overbearing father had determined to make the most of before she ever heard of Robert Schumann, and I have no reason to believe that the musical influence as between brother and sister in the one case and husband and wife in the other was not a two-way street. Honesty compels me to say that I couldn't be sure of identifying other work by either composer on the strength of what I so far know, which is (on top of these trios) some violin/piano duos, songs and piano solos by Clara and nothing else whatsoever by Fanny. Honesty equally allows me to say that my first reaction to the first movement of CS's trio was that it showed a lot more continuity and fluency than many first movements by her husband, whose genius lay in other aspects of the matter. However you finally assess these two compositions, they are not the work of dilettantes or amateurs. Both show thorough musical schooling both in terms of the construction and of the instrumental writing. There is melodic talent too, and if I had had to guess the composer of FM's trio I might not necessarily have guessed anyone with the same surname. It is interestingly planned, with two slow movements in effect, an andante followed by a 'Lied' marked allegretto, but a slow allegretto. I can't believe that the speed adopted on the disc is wrong as the movement is less than two and a half minutes in length even played like this. For a moment or two it almost seemed as if there was going to be a third slow movement, but the finale gathers a bit of pace after a while.
The performances strike me as excellent, and the recording too. The liner-note is slightly humdrum, but it contains some useful background. The total playing-time is roughly 55 minutes. I would have appreciated some fillers, given how little the composers' work is generally known, but at a bargain price I suppose I ought not to be greedy. I know for a fact that there is some very interesting stuff by CS, and I should be pleased to learn that more of FM's work, still I believe largely unpublished, is being made available to us.
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