Dvořák: Piano Trios Op. 21 & 26

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Throughout the disc, on which the sound quality is very resonant but never intrusive, they show a natural empathy with Dvořák’s language and bring to the music all the whole-hearted bounce, sparkle... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 17th May 2019
Catalogue No: ALPHA466
Label: Alpha
Length: 66 minutes

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Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 21 (B51)

Work length34:43

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Busch Trio

I. Allegro molto

Track length13:23

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II. Adagio molto e mesto

Track length8:47

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III. Allegretto scherzando

Track length6:25

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IV. Finale. Allegro vivace

Track length6:08

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Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 2 in G minor, Op. 26 (B56)

Work length32:01

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Busch Trio

I. Allegro moderato

Track length12:52

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II. Largo

Track length7:19

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III. Scherzo (Presto) - Trio (Poco meno mosso)

Track length5:41

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IV. Finale. Allegro non tanto

Track length6:09

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After their three recordings dedicated to Dvořák’s Piano Trios No. 3 and No. 4 (the ‘Dumky’), as well as his First and Second Piano Quartets, the Piano Quintets and the Bagatelles, Omri Epstein, Mathieu van Bellen and Ori Epstein conclude their complete cycle of the Czech composer’s chamber music with piano with his first two piano trios: the bond of sympathy between the artists becomes evident as they communicate boththeir passion for this repertoire and their pleasure in making music together.

The Trio in B flat major – the first that has survived – was composed in the spring of 1875, during a period when Dvořák was conceiving and consolidating a more conventional sense of musical form and style. The works of this remarkably prolific year show a distinct crystallisation of Dvořák’s mature melodic style. When the composer began work on his Trio in G minor, in January 1876, he was exhausted after the completion of his opera Vanda, and overcome with grief for the death of his daughter Josefa. He would certainly have known how, back in 1855, his elder colleague Smetana had turned to the genre of the piano trio in similar circumstances, to express his sorrow at the death of his own daughter.This recording completes this fourpart edition of Dvořák’s piano trios, quartets and quintets.

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August 2019

Throughout the disc, on which the sound quality is very resonant but never intrusive, they show a natural empathy with Dvořák’s language and bring to the music all the whole-hearted bounce, sparkle and rich-toned expressiveness that it needs and deserves.

August 2019

The Busch relish the confidence of No. 1, from its shimmering opening onwards, ensuring that the piano never overwhelms the textures…There’s drama aplenty, too – for instance the way they take the dynamics right down before the development creeps in. Pianist Omri Epstein captures just the right mood in his introduction to the slow movement, rapt without a hint of sentimentality…The Busch are no less impressive in the more brooding Second Trio.

14th July 2019

These two works are far from negligible, especially the dark, forceful G minor Trio No 2, as the Busch players’ captivating performances make clear. The scherzo of the B flat No 1 is a charmer.

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