Gould Piano Trio

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James MacMillan's Fourteen Little Pieces for piano trio… add up to one of MacMillan's most convincing large scale structures. The three excellent musicians of the Gould Trio make every detail... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Feb 2009
Catalogue No: WHLIVE0026
Label: Wigmore Hall Live
Length: 73 minutes

MacMillan: Fourteen Little Pictures

Work length23:15

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Gould Piano Trio

I. feroce, virtuoso, strepitoso eighth note = c.60

Track length1:17

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II. [decrescendo into ppp delicato] (fragile) eighth note = sixteenth note

Track length1:08

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III. molto espressivo eighth note = 40-48

Track length1:11

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IV. sixteenth note = 144 sonore

Track length1:14

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V. meno mosso sixteenth note = c.120

Track length1:14

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VI. very slow

Track length1:39

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VII. eighth note = 40-48 (eruptive)

Track length1:02

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VIII. Adagio, molto espressivo

Track length1:25

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IX. eighth note = 40-48 (emphatic)

Track length1:01

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X. feroce, virtuoso, strepitoso eighth note = c.60

Track length1:39

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XI. prestissimo possibile

Track length1:22

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XII.

Track length1:18

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XIII.

Track length2:14

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XIV. feroce, virtuoso, strepitoso eighth note = c.60

Track length5:31

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Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major, D929

Work length50:18

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Gould Piano Trio

I. Allegro

Track length16:42

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II. Andante con moto

Track length9:29

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III. Allegro moderato

Track length7:11

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III. Allegro moderato [uncut manuscript version]

Track length16:56

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Live from Wigmore Hall - 17 July 2008

Acclaimed by audiences, critics and fellow musicians, the Gould Piano Trio has firmly established a reputation as one of the finest, most stylish and versatile chamber ensembles to emerge in recent years.

WHLIVE0026 presents Piano Trios by Schubert, in a work considered to be a masterpiece of the Piano Trio repertoire.

A highlight is James MacMillan’s, 14 Little Pictures, a work the Trio have championed since performing it at the BBC Symphony’s MacMillan Festival at the Barbican and one that is seldom recorded. Composed by one of today’s most successful living composers, this is a fascinating work comprised of fourteen separate miniatures stitched together and interwoven to form a single through-composed work.

The Gould Piano Trio has received countless national and international awards. From their early success at the Charles Hennen and the inaugural Melbourne Competitions through being selected as British ‘Rising Stars’ in 1998, they have since won awards from the Tillett and John Tunnell Trusts in the UK.

Their recording for Naxos combining the Piano Trios of Stanford and Bax was short-listed for a Gramophone award.

The Gould’s residency at the RNCM in Manchester gives them the opportunity to build relationships with young ensembles, introducing them to a wider repertoire, probing deeper into the meaning of the scores and giving regular performances in the city’s busy concert schedule.

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May 2009

James MacMillan's Fourteen Little Pieces for piano trio… add up to one of MacMillan's most convincing large scale structures. The three excellent musicians of the Gould Trio make every detail tell in this live performance, while ensuring that the sense of mysterious progress is not lost. They're also very fine in the Schubert Trio... Benjamin Frith's delicious repeated notes in the finale are specially memorable.

22nd February 2009

Restraint is the obvious hallmark of the Gould Trio’s performance of Schubert’s great, expansive, late E flat major piano trio...This suits the piece perfectly, for it is poised on that knife edge between sadness and contentment, and any hint of abandon might destroy that balance.

1st March 2009

[Fourteen Little Pictures is] rebarbative, fidgety, wistful and, in the final movement, brooding, his snapshots are realised as meticulously and elegantly as Schubert's Piano Trio in E flat in this live performance by the Gould Piano Trio. Beautifully balanced, this bizarre juxtaposition of composers works suprisingly well.

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