The Florestan Trio plays these two gems of the piano chamber music repertoire with superbly flowing movement and energy, so that even though both are in minor keys, there is a sense of vital beauty and radiance to them. Pianist Susan Tomes has a wonderfully light, smooth touch that ripples along in the Scherzos, but has a depth of tone that blends ...
Here's a piece you don't often hear performed in concert: Mozart's Divertimento in B flat major, K. 254 (aka, his Piano Trio No. 1). While the other five works in the same form are performed frequently by virtue of their later date of composition, the early Trio No. 1 is not only rarely performed in concert, it's usually recorded only in context ...
The fourth and final volume in the Florestan Trio's recordings of Beethoven's Piano Trios is by no means the last and the least. Although the competition from earlier volumes featuring first the "Ghost" Trio, then the "Archduke" Trio, and then the first two Trios is stiff, the Florestan's fourth volume has the virtue of Beethoven's first published ...
This 12-disc set does indeed contain all of Brahms' acknowledged chamber works (the original version of the first Piano Trio and the possibly spurious-possibly authentic Fourth Piano Quartet are left out). And although the standard caveats for box sets holds here -- the quality of the performers is mixed and better performances of all the works ...
The two piano trios on this disc sound forward, perhaps even a bit flirtatious, and because these are not qualities often associated either with the composer Antonin Dvorák or with his more popular Piano Trio in F minor, you may find these earlier trios in B flat major and G minor surprising. But expansive of form, lyrical in expression, and heart ...
English pianist Susan Tomes has made a career of playing chamber music. Back in the '80s and '90s, she was the pianist with the Domus Ensemble, a piano quartet that recorded just about every work in the repertoire for that combination. In the '90s, Tomes helped found the Florestan Trio and set to work recording just about every work in the ...
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