Fauré & Pierné: Piano Trios

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As is clear from this excellent performance by the Trio Wanderer, the reason Pierne's Trio is not better known is fashion rather than quality...this music remains quietly compelling, especially... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Nov 2014
Catalogue No: HMC902192
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 57 minutes

Pierné, G: Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 45

Work length39:00

Album only

I. Agité, de mouvement et de sentiment

Track length17:49

Album only

II. Allegretto scherzando

Track length8:36

$1.20

$1.50

$1.75

III. Modérément lent

Track length12:35

$1.40

$1.75

$2.05

Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120

Work length18:30

$3.20

$4.00

$4.65

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length5:55

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

II. Andantino

Track length8:03

$1.20

$1.50

$1.75

III. Allegro vivo

Track length4:32

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

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Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Trio is a late work (1923) which at once aroused the admiration of his contemporaries and is now regarded as one of the finest trios in the French repertory. The much less well-known Trio of Gabriel Pierné, premiered a year earlier, is characterised by its solid architecture, its great melodic richness, and a notably inventive rhythmic style.

Two masterpieces that make an eminently logical coupling. It was premiered in Paris, at the Société Nationale de Musique, on 11 February 1922. Pierné himself played the piano part, with George Enescu on the violin and Gérard Hekking on the cello. After the concert, the composer Paul Ladmirault wrote a very flattering article in Le Courrier musical. One understands what Ladmirault meant when he wrote that it ‘may take its place alongside the finest chamber music of César Franck and M. Fauré’.

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February 2015

As is clear from this excellent performance by the Trio Wanderer, the reason Pierne's Trio is not better known is fashion rather than quality...this music remains quietly compelling, especially as played here. The Trio Wanderer beautifully sustain the understated conversational lyricism of the slow movement.

December 2014

the Wanderer balance rhetoric and stillness to great effect...Pierné is unsparing of his players but the Wanderer rise to every challenge, and the piece ends in a gloriously affirmative manner.

January 2015

Trio Wanderer prove ideal advocates, combining technical mastery of the highest degree with total authenticity. You feel they are completely at one with the idiom and love this work…This new recording demands to be heard. This ensemble has become one of the finest chamber groups in the world...you feel you are being guided by the best possible hands.

2nd February 2015

On this release my already high expectations are exceeded. Clearly immaculately prepared one is conscious of playing that quests deep, yet sensitively into the core of the music. With secure intonation and attractive tone this technically impeccable trio is caught in unrivalled form. The sound is crystal clear and well balanced.

20th November 2014

it’s the Trio Wanderer’s performance of the Pierné that’s the more worthwhile of the two, partly because it has been recorded less often, but more importantly because they respond more vividly to its routine invention than they do to the inflections of Fauré’s seamlessly subtle phrases.

June 2015

The first movement covers a huge range in its nearly 18 minutes…the players show a masterly command of its structure, maintaining line and direction through its great paragraphs, even when the music is at its most musing, and they build wonderfully to its ecstatic and sustained climax, with pulsing vibrato and some splendid violin swoops into the heights…an engaging performance of an engaging work.

Fauré & Pierné: Piano Trios

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