Trio Mondrian - Ravel/Shostakovich: Piano Trios (2012)
BAND/ARTIST: Trio Mondrian
- Title: Ravel/Shostakovich: Piano Trios
- Year Of Release: 2012
- Label: Challenge Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 00:53:40
- Total Size: 219 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Piano trio in a minor: Modéré
02. Piano trio in a minor: Pantoum (Assez Vif)
03. Piano trio in a minor: Passacaille (Très large)
04. Piano trio in a minor: Final (Animé)
05. Piano trio no. 2 in e minor op. 67: Andante-Moderato
06. Piano trio no. 2 in e minor op. 67: Allegro con brio
07. Piano trio no. 2 in e minor op. 67: Largo
08. Piano trio no. 2 in e minor op. 67: Allegretto
The pairing of Ravel's Piano Trio in A minor of 1914 and Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67, is an interesting one, with the hyperlyrical Ravel forming a strong contrast with the grim (even for this composer) Shostakovich even as both works were written under the shadow of war. The Ravel trio, written 30 years earlier, is the more inventive with regard to form, but there are odd threads of commonality as well, such as the unexpected tensions between counterpoint and lyric material in the two works. The new Trio Mondrian, whose base of operations is Israel, offers an extremely sensitive and evocative performance of the Ravel. With very strong engineering support from the Netherlands' Challenge label, working in the Siemens studios in Berlin, they create a hushed world in which each of Ravel's formal innovations -- sample the second movement, "Pantoum," a musical analogue to a chainlike Malay verse form -- takes on its properly delightful quality. The opening movement draws you in from the very first bars. Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2, with Jewish themes interwoven into the material and growing in insistence as a kind of clarion war memorial, is an underrated masterpiece of the World War II era. The Trio Mondrian takes a quiet look at the work that makes it sound a bit like the Ravel. There's room for greater intensity in this work, but the album makes a persuasive artistic and sonic whole, and for the extraordinary performance of the Ravel it's well worth space in any good chamber music collection.
01. Piano trio in a minor: Modéré
02. Piano trio in a minor: Pantoum (Assez Vif)
03. Piano trio in a minor: Passacaille (Très large)
04. Piano trio in a minor: Final (Animé)
05. Piano trio no. 2 in e minor op. 67: Andante-Moderato
06. Piano trio no. 2 in e minor op. 67: Allegro con brio
07. Piano trio no. 2 in e minor op. 67: Largo
08. Piano trio no. 2 in e minor op. 67: Allegretto
The pairing of Ravel's Piano Trio in A minor of 1914 and Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67, is an interesting one, with the hyperlyrical Ravel forming a strong contrast with the grim (even for this composer) Shostakovich even as both works were written under the shadow of war. The Ravel trio, written 30 years earlier, is the more inventive with regard to form, but there are odd threads of commonality as well, such as the unexpected tensions between counterpoint and lyric material in the two works. The new Trio Mondrian, whose base of operations is Israel, offers an extremely sensitive and evocative performance of the Ravel. With very strong engineering support from the Netherlands' Challenge label, working in the Siemens studios in Berlin, they create a hushed world in which each of Ravel's formal innovations -- sample the second movement, "Pantoum," a musical analogue to a chainlike Malay verse form -- takes on its properly delightful quality. The opening movement draws you in from the very first bars. Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2, with Jewish themes interwoven into the material and growing in insistence as a kind of clarion war memorial, is an underrated masterpiece of the World War II era. The Trio Mondrian takes a quiet look at the work that makes it sound a bit like the Ravel. There's room for greater intensity in this work, but the album makes a persuasive artistic and sonic whole, and for the extraordinary performance of the Ravel it's well worth space in any good chamber music collection.
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