Schumann: The 3 Piano Trios
Ilya Gringolts (violin), Peter Laul (piano) & Dmitry Kouzov (cello)
These three players would seem to view the trios primarily as inward works, a conversation between friends...Thus these performances are most effective in the less extrovert parts of the music.
Schumann: The 3 Piano Trios
Ilya Gringolts (violin), Peter Laul (piano) & Dmitry Kouzov (cello)
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These three players would seem to view the trios primarily as inward works, a conversation between friends...Thus these performances are most effective in the less extrovert parts of the music.
About
Schumann’s three piano trios were written over a short four-year period (1847–1851) with the first two dating from just a few months apart in 1847.
The First Piano Trio is often regarded as the strongest work of the three, and although it was conceived as a pair with the Second Piano Trio, they differ markedly in tone, with the first having a much darker, and more brooding quality in comparison to the sunnier second.
Schumann’s third and final piano trio was written in 1851, soon after the composer and his family had moved to Düsseldorf. Unfortunately it wasn’t a happy move, and Schumann was beginning to experience symptoms of the mental decline that would lead to his committal to a mental hospital in 1854, and his death two years later.
Contents and tracklist
- Ilya Gringolts, Peter Laul, Dmitry Kouzov
- Ilya Gringolts, Peter Laul, Dmitry Kouzov
- Ilya Gringolts, Peter Laul, Dmitry Kouzov
Awards and reviews
July 2011
These three players would seem to view the trios primarily as inward works, a conversation between friends...Thus these performances are most effective in the less extrovert parts of the music.
May 2011
The success of the present artist in clarifying Schumann's chamber sonorities without 'over-cleaning the painting' is considerable, though it has a dark underside that is itself positive. The 'underside' consists of the way in which they make the listener understand the instrinsic nature of Schumann's often less than transparent textures, whereby its attendant problems are not so much 'solved' as clearly represented.
The Independent on Sunday 24th April 2011
Cellist Dmitry Kouzov joins Gringolts and his pianist Peter Laul, his slightly acidic tone an interesting foil to Gringolts' honeyed sound. The balance is unusually even-handed, leading to sensory overload in the dense melodic effusion of the third Trio. Though some tempi are cautious, this is stylish and thoughtful musicianship.
