Schumann: Complete Piano Trios, Complete String Quartets & Fantasiestücke Op. 88

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Release Date: 24th Jun 2016
Catalogue No: 95041
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1

Work length25:05

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Quartetto Savinio

I. Introduction. Andante espressivo - Allegro

Track length9:11

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II. Scherzo. Presto - Intermezzo

Track length3:50

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III. Adagio

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IV. Presto

Track length6:28

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Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41 No. 3

Work length28:53

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Quartetto Savinio

I. Andante espressivo - Allegro molto moderato

Track length7:36

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II. Assai agitato - Un poco adagio - Tempo risoluto

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III. Adagio molto

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IV. Finale. Allegro molto vivace

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Schumann: String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 41 No. 2

Work length23:49

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Quartetto Savinio

I. Allegro vivace

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II. Andante, quasi variazioni

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III. Scherzo. Presto

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IV. Allegro molto vivace

Track length7:06

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Schumann: Piano Trio No. 2 in F major, Op. 80

Work length25:47

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Alberto Maria Ruta, Lorenzo Ceriani, Matteo Fossi

I. Sehr lebhaft

Track length7:33

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II. Mit innigem Ausdruck

Track length7:18

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III. In massiger Bewegung

Track length5:20

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IV. Nicht zu rasch

Track length5:36

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Schumann: Fantasiestücke in A minor for Piano Trio, Op. 88

Work length18:17

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Alberto Maria Ruta, Lorenzo Ceriani, Matteo Fossi

No. 1, Romanze

Track length2:17

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No. 2, Humoreske

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No. 3, Duett

Track length3:11

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No. 4, Finale

Track length5:54

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Schumann: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63

Work length29:43

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Alberto Maria Ruta, Lorenzo Ceriani, Matteo Fossi

I. Mit Energie und Leidenschaft

Track length12:02

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II. Lebhaft, doch nicht zu rasch

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III. Langsam, mit inniger Empfindung

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IV. Mit Feuer

Track length7:54

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Schumann: Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110

Work length26:08

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Alberto Maria Ruta, Lorenzo Ceriani, Matteo Fossi

I. Bewegt, doch nicht zu rasch

Track length9:22

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II. Ziemlich langsam

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III. Rasch

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IV. Kraftig, mit Humor

Track length7:02

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Schumann composed his three string quartets and the Fantasiestücke Op.88 in his ‘chamber music year’ of 1842, while preparing for the two oratorios which he regarded as his greatest work in any medium, Paradise and the Peri (1843) and the Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, which preoccupied him on and off for the next decade. Posterity has however been less kind to these large-scale summations than the song cycles and chamber works, such as those recorded here, in which the composer’s obsessive reworking of small motifs finds consistently impassioned expression.

As befits their place within the canon of the genre, the string quartets are often densely and contrapuntally worked, whereas the piano-trio Fantasiestücke are more characteristic of Schumann the lyric poet, whether for voice or instruments. These four pieces are cast as a sonata manqué, with a soulful prelude, lively Scherzo, yearning duet for the two string instruments and combative finale. They have not received the attention they deserve from either performers or listeners, but they are fully the equal of the three piano trios proper in which, according to Alfred Einstein, can best be heard the composer’s self-declared dual nature as both Florestan and Eusebius, impetuous man of action and melancholy dreamer. Joy and exuberance are their keynotes.

The Quartetto Savinio has been acclaimed by a native critic as the ‘true heir to the Quartetto Italiano’, and its musicians were coached by the violist of that ensemble, Piero Farulli. With an all-Italian line-up, the quartet has worked with many contemporary composers from their own country, and won both awards and critical praise for a previous recording of the string quartets by Luigi Cherubini: it is an Italian ensemble through and through. The Florentine pianist Matteo Fossi has recorded for Decca (including much of Brahms’s two-piano repertoire with his regular duet partner, Marco Gaggini) and Brilliant Classics, notably the piano quartets of Schumann with Quartetto Klimt (95012BR).

Schumann: Complete Piano Trios, Complete String Quartets & Fantasiestücke Op. 88

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