Berlin Stories: Mendelssohn, Juon, Skalkottas

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Trio Gaspard has a chameleon-like ability to adapt to the widely varying styles of each composer: Mendelssohn’s stately poise, Juon’s passionate mysticism, and Skalkottas’s spikiness. If future... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2024 More…

Release Date: 23rd Jun 2023
Catalogue No: CHAN20271
Label: Chandos
Length: 55 minutes

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Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66

Work length27:46

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I. Allegro energico

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II. Andante espressivo

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III. Scherzo

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IV. Finale

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Juon: Litaniae for piano, violin and cello, Op. 70

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Skalkottas: Eight Variations on a Greek Folk Tune

Work length10:02

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Berlin Stories is the first in a new series of recordings by the Trio Gaspard, based on different cultural capitals and composers associated with them. The album features three composers who lived and worked in Berlin for a period of their lives – for different reasons and in varying circumstances. Mendelssohn’s grandfather, Moses, was a philosopher and leader of the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, establishing a pre-eminent position for the family in Berlin, and creating the opportunities for both Felix and Fanny to realise their musical potential. The second piano trio is a perfects example of Mendelssohn’s style, combining a total mastery of classical structure and counterpoint with romantic sensibility. Moscow-born, but of Swiss parentage, Paul Juon came to Berlin in 1894 to study composition at the city’s foremost Conservatory, and remained in the city until he retired to Switzerland in 1934. Litaniae, his fourth piano trio, is unlike anything else in the piano trio repertoire. It is cast as a single movement and resembles Richard Strauss’s tone poems in scale and ambition. Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas, arrived in Berlin in 1921, and stayed until 1933. He studied composition with a number of leading tutors, before spending 5 years studying with Arnold Schoenberg. His eight variations exemplify his ability to combine serial composition with his native folk music. All the members of Trio Gaspard have lived or still live in Berlin and Berlin Stories expresses their love and admiration for this endlessly fascinating and invigorating metropolis.

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Jan/Feb 2024

Trio Gaspard has a chameleon-like ability to adapt to the widely varying styles of each composer: Mendelssohn’s stately poise, Juon’s passionate mysticism, and Skalkottas’s spikiness. If future releases in this series are as remarkable as this disc, then we’re in for some very special recordings in the future.

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