Brahms & Krenek: Piano Trios

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Overall, this feels like a trio recording for the 21st century, full of detail, precision and forthright passion. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2023

Release Date: 6th Oct 2023
Catalogue No: AVI8553525
Label: Avi Music
Length: 46 minutes

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Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8

Work length35:15

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2nd Version 1889
Christoph Streuli (violin), David Riniker (cello), Adrian Oetiker (piano)
Feininger Trio
Recorded: 2021-11
Recording Venue: Kammermusiksaal, Berlin

I. Allegro con brio

Track length14:42

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II. Scherzo. Allegro molto

Track length6:23

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III. Adagio

Track length7:35

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IV. Finale. Allegro

Track length6:35

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Krenek: Triophantasie, Op. 63

Work length11:14

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Christoph Streuli (violin), David Riniker (cello), Adrian Oetiker (piano)
Feininger Trio
Recorded: 2021-11
Recording Venue: Kammermusiksaal, Berlin

I. Andante sostenuto

Track length11:14

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This is the fifth album of the Feininger Trio: members of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra.

By combining Brahms's piano trios with works in the same genre by his younger Viennese successors, we aim to open up new perspectives on Brahms's output. The two works featured on the current release, Brahms's Trio Op. 8 and Ernst Krenek's Trio-Fantasia Op. 63, are essentially different in one particular way. In Brahms, the two string instruments often play together, either in octaves or in sixths, and the two are particularly closely intertwined in the B Major Trio (Op. 8). Krenek, however, handles the violin and the cello quite differenty: they respond to one another as in a question-and-answer game, or they take up their musical partner's material and carry it a step further.

The instrumental parts in Krenek's work are not as closely interwoven in this piece as in Brahms's trio. But Krenek's Op. 63 seems to depict an entire life story. It starts very softly; then, a series of events take place, just as in real life; toward the end, the music seems to vanish into the heavens. We come, and we go. That expressive "life curve" is profoundly moving and provides unity. The work thus follows a form akin to an arc: at the end, we return to where we started, but not before having experienced utter transformation in the course of the piece.

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December 2023

Overall, this feels like a trio recording for the 21st century, full of detail, precision and forthright passion.

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