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Trio opus100 – OPUS 100

Artists: Trio opus100

Title: OPUS 100

Catalogue No.: SM 145

Release: 18.10.2010

 

Description

More than the monumental length of Schubert’s OPUS 100 has made the work not only a highlight in the history of music but also as the apogee of the piano trio genre. Getting to grips with this work may feel likeplanning an ascent of Mount Everest. But for a recently established ensemble to undertake this work for their first CD recording is like actually making the ascent of Everest itself. And we are also going without our oxygen supply, having taken the audacious decision to ignore the usual cuts the composer authorised and to play all the repeats in full, in an effort to savour Schubert’s proverbial “heavenly length” all the more. The recording of Schubert’s “small” piano sonata in A major op. 120 was made nearly ten years earlier, in June 2001. Like the E flat major trio, this work is not dependent on dialectically confined contrasts of mood or detailed motivic work. Its themes are not polar opposites but rather recurrences of the same idea. It is this kind of expressive ambiguity that makes Schubert a real romanticist and distinguishes him from the classically bipolar thinking of Beethoven.

Tracklist

Klaviertrio Es-Dur op. 100 (D. 929) – ungekürzte Fassung – Franz Schubert
01 Allegro
02 Andante con moto
03 Scherzando – Allegro moderato
04 Allegro moderato

Klaviersonate A-Dur op. 120 (D. 664) – Franz Schubert

05 Allegro moderato
06 Andante
07 Allegro