Trio Zimmermann plays Mozart’s Divertimento

[Trio Zimmermann] narrow the gap between the learned and the popular...No detachment in Schubert's unfinished one-movement Trio either. The musicians are consistently sympathetic to changing... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 More…

Release Date: 4th Jan 2011
Catalogue No: BISSACD1817
Label: BIS
Length: 59 minutes

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Mozart: Divertimento in E flat major, K563

Work length47:51

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Trio Zimmermann
Recorded: July 2009
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

I. Allegro

Track length12:23

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II. Adagio

Track length11:15

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III. Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio

Track length5:23

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IV. Andante

Track length7:05

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V. Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio I - Trio II

Track length5:17

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VI. Allegro

Track length6:28

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Schubert: String Trio in B flat major, D471

Work length11:31

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Trio Zimmermann
Recorded: July 2010
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

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BIS is delighted to release the debut recording of the star-studded ensemble, Trio Zimmermann, formed by Frank Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltéra. Here they perform W.A. Mozart’s Divertimento in E flat major which the scholar Alfred Einstein described as ‘Each instrument is primus inter pares, every note is significant …’ Composed in the same year as the three final symphonies, Mozart’s only real trio for violin, viola and cello is a weighty work – six movements and close to 50 minutes of music – and the fact that Mozart chose the title Divertimento (from the Italian divertire: to amuse) for a piece of these dimensions has often been remarked upon.

To round off the disc, the trio perform Franz Schubert’s first contribution to the string trio genre, the opening – and only complete – movement (Allegro) of his String Trio in B flat major, D 471, written in 1816 by the nineteen-year-old composer.

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April 2011

[Trio Zimmermann] narrow the gap between the learned and the popular...No detachment in Schubert's unfinished one-movement Trio either. The musicians are consistently sympathetic to changing facets that reflect a 19-year-old composer trying to find his own voice. And BIS's SACD recording is throughout of a bloom and lucidity that captures the subtleties of performance.

March 2011

The players of Trio Zimmermann do this Divertimento full justice. Tempos are well chosen, the two outer movements played to suggest an apt forward-pressing animation but never so fast as to cause blurring of rapidly articulated passages. Tonally, the group avoids unwanted lushness and prominent vibrato, thereby suggesting, without duplicating, an eighteenth-century sonority.

13th February 2011

The Trio Zimmermann — led by another supremely Mozartian soloist, Frank Peter of that name — possibly outclasses the Grumiauxs in its leaner, keener approach to the shifts of mood, from serenity to turbulence, that darken Mozart’s diverting music. The trio movement by the 19-year-old Schubert is an attractive makeweight.

3rd February 2011

a considerable achievement, warmly recorded, scrupulously stylish and wonderfully generous in spirit. It's played by a trio who are not only all front-rank soloists in their own right, but chamber musicians who know how to listen intently to each other and to respond accordingly

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