BaL 7.03.15 - Clara Schumann: Piano Trio in G minor Op. 17

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

0930
Building a Library
Pianist and composer David Owen Norris sifts the available recordings of Clara Schumann's 1846 Piano Trio in G minor, one of her of finest compositions, to make a personal recommendation. Perhaps fearing competition too close to home, Robert Schumann didn't exactly encourage his spouse's musical career: 'the wife stands even higher than the artist', he said maybe a little disingenuously. But Clara had other ideas: undaunted, she continued to pursue both her composing and her tours as a piano virtuoso. Robert's response? A piano trio of his own, a year later.

Available versions:-

Abegg Trio
Atlantis Trio (download)
Beaux Arts Trio (download)
Rodolfo Bonucci, Andrea Noferini, Francesco Nicolosi
Boulanger Trio
Dartington Piano Trio
Double Image
Rosamunde Quartet, String Trio
Joseph Silverstein, Colin Carr, Veronica Jochum
Storioni Trio
Streicher Trio (download)
Swiss Piano Trio
Triangulus
Antje Weithaas, Tanja Tetzlaff, Gunilla Sussmann

[cincinnatus]

0930
Building a Library
Pianist and composer David Owen Norris sifts the available recordings of Clara Schumann's 1846 Piano Trio in G minor, one of her of finest compositions, to make a personal recommendation. Perhaps fearing competition too close to home, Robert Schumann didn't exactly encourage his spouse's musical career: 'the wife stands even higher than the artist', he said maybe a little disingenuously. But Clara had other ideas: undaunted, she continued to pursue both her composing and her tours as a piano virtuoso. Robert's response? A piano trio of his own, a year later.

Available versions:-

Abegg Trio
Atlantis Trio (download)
Rodolfo Bonucci, Andrea Noferini, Francesco Nicolosi
Boulanger Trio
Dartington Piano Trio
Double Image
Joseph Silverstein, Colin Carr, Veronica Jochum
Storioni Trio
Streicher Trio (download)
Swiss Piano Trio
Triangulus
Antje Weithaas, Tanja Tetzlaff, Gunilla Sussmann

It is possible to download the Beaux Arts recording from a 4 CD Philips Original Masters set from Amazon, EA.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It is possible to download the Beaux Arts recording from a 4 CD Philips Original Masters set from Amazon, EA.

Thank you.

[Nick Armstrong]

This will be a treat - a piece I don't know at all, DON in the saddle... and I love a good piano trio

[Roehre]

0930
Building a Library
Pianist and composer David Owen Norris sifts the available recordings of Clara Schumann's 1846 Piano Trio in G minor, one of her of finest compositions, to make a personal recommendation. Perhaps fearing competition too close to home, Robert Schumann didn't exactly encourage his spouse's musical career: 'the wife stands even higher than the artist', he said maybe a little disingenuously. But Clara had other ideas: undaunted, she continued to pursue both her composing and her tours as a piano virtuoso. Robert's response? A piano trio of his own, a year later....

Even more painful for Robert, as he withdrew his really first piano trio from 1842 and only published it later as the Phantasiestücke op.88 after a thourough revision of that pianotrio no.0. That trio is definitely qualitatively overshadowed by Clara's g-minor, while the Trio nr.1 in d op.63 from 1847 isn't one of Robert's strongest works and hardly up to Clara's either .

[verismissimo]

I have a recording of Clara's piano trio in G major, op 17. Is that the same or different?

[Roehre]

I have a recording of Clara's piano trio in G major, op 17. Is that the same or different?

Has got to be the same, as there is only one Clara Schumann piano trio. So, the major it your recording's title has got to be a mistake.

[gurnemanz]

This recording of piano and chamber works was a present from my wife and very good it is too.



Available as download and as CD import (at an exaggerated price.)

[antongould]

This will be a treat - a piece I don't know at all, DON in the saddle... and I love a good piano trio

It is very rare I scale your dizzy heights but l don't know it either. Just streaming the Boulanger Trio now ....very enjoyable...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This will be a treat - a piece I don't know at all, DON in the saddle... and I love a good piano trio

I haven't heard it either. However, if it's half as good as her piano concerto we could be in for a surprise.

[verismissimo]

Has got to be the same, as there is only one Clara Schumann piano trio. So, the major it your recording's title has got to be a mistake.

Thanks, Roehre. I got the Oryx LP out of its sleeve to listen to it after many years and notice that while the sleeve has it as being in G major, the label has it in G minor (as is the music!). FYI the performance is by the Clara-Wieck Trio ( Franziska Koscielny, violin, Gisela Reith, cello, Monica von Saalfeld, piano). NLA of course.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

FYI the performance is by the Clara-Wieck Trio ( Franziska Koscielny, violin, Gisela Reith, cello, Monica von Saalfeld, piano). NLA of course.

If you're prepared to pay the price, anything's possible.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/TRIO-G-MOLL-OP-17-D-MOLL-OP-11/dp/B000025VKR/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425058640&sr=8-1&keywords=Clara-Wieck+Trio

[verismissimo]

[QUOTE=Eine Alpensinfonie;471127]If you're prepared to pay the price, anything's possible.

[url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/TRIO

132 quid? I paid 10 shillings, Alpie. And the performance is a bit dull!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

If you're prepared to pay the price, anything's possible.

132 quid? I paid 10 shillings, Alpie. And the performance is a bit dull!

I was thinking more of the used version at only £18. But if the performance is dull, maybe that's a bit steep too.

[Don Petter]

I think the Macalester Trio's version is still available?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chamber-Works-Women-Composers-Malcalester/dp/B000001K2J