Brahms & Korngold (Piano Trios)

Feininger Trio

Released on 2022-09-23 by Cavi-Music
Main artists: Feininger Trio
Genre: Classical

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This is the second in a series of releases from the Feininger Trio, each one pairing one of Brahms' three piano trios with a trio by a Viennese composer of the next generation. It's a good idea; Alexander Zemlinsky, who was featured on the first album in the series (the third will be devoted to the somewhat later Ernst Krenek), said that young composers around the turn of the century were trying to outdo each other in writing Brahmsian music. Here, however, the closer for the program is the Piano Trio in D major, Op. 1, of Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The work, composed when Korngold was 12, is recognizably a product of a world where Brahms was lionized, but it has more to do with Richard Strauss than with Brahms, and as one might expect from a 12-year-old undertaking such a thing, it is pretty far over the top. The Feininger Trio, made up of players from the Berlin Philharmonic, delivers the kind of technically flawless, restrained performance one often hears from such groups. The Brahms is quite elegantly done, but they don't have quite the familiarity with each other to go out on a limb as the Korngold required. Nevertheless, one awaits the final volume in the group's series with interest. Deutschlandfunk's sound from the Philharmonie chamber music room is superb.

© James Manheim /TiVo

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Brahms & Korngold (Piano Trios)

Feininger Trio

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Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87 (Johannes Brahms)

I. Allegro

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Johannes Brahms, Composer - Christoph Franke, Editor, Mastering Engineer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - David Riniker, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Stefan Lang, Producer - Adrian Oetiker, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Feininger Trio, Ensemble, MainArtist - Christoph Streuli, Violin, AssociatedPerformer