BaL 30.05.15 - Mendelssohn: Piano Trio no. 1 in D minor

[visualnickmos]

Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose, Eugene Istomin is the recording through which I became to know the piece.
It was on the the same CBS Masterworks LP as Beethoven's op.1/3, for which I actually bought it.
I must say that the Mendelssohn for me turned out to be the much more interesting piece - and I liked especially the quite chopinesque approach of the slow mvt.

I hadn't thought of it in those terms, but now you mention it, I hear exactly what you mean. I look fwd to this BaL, as I relish Mendelssohn's chamber music. I find it so much more absorbing, and indeed, more sophisticated and developed than his orchestral music. It's in a completely different league...

[EdgeleyRob]

How would we cope without Mendelssohn's glorious chamber music ?

The Gould Trio on Naxos is up there with the best,c/w the 2nd Trio which is as fine a piece as the 1st,all IMVHO

[verismissimo]

What about the version by the Suk Trio (Suk, Panenka, and Chuchro)?...

I've had it on LP for most of the 48 years since it was recorded. Still sounds wonderful to my ears.

[Sir Stanford]

How would we cope without Mendelssohn's glorious chamber music ?

The Gould Trio on Naxos is up there with the best,c/w the 2nd Trio which is as fine a piece as the 1st,all IMVHO

Hiya EdgeleyRob,

I also admire the Gould Trio in the two Mendelssohn pianos trios. My primary choices are the accounts from the Trio Alba from 2012 recorded in Konzerthaus der Abtei Marienmünster on MDG and the accounts from Julia Fischer, Jonathan Gilad & Daniel Müller-Schott recorded in 2006 at Cologne on Pentatone Classics.

[Rolmill]

I have the Argerich/Capucon/Capucon 2002 Lugano performance, which is included in the Martha Argerich Edition Chamber Music box - headstrong and exciting, it is still available (e.g at Europadisc: http://www.europadisc.co.uk/classica...mber_Music.htm).

I also have a somewhat more restrained (verging on plain) performance from the Golub/Kaplan/Carr trio on Arabesque, but this is nla I think.

It's a marvellous piece, so I will try to Listen Again.

[Bryn]

I have the Argerich/Capucon/Capucon 2002 Lugano performance, which is included in the Martha Argerich Edition Chamber Music box - headstrong and exciting, it is still available (e.g at Europadisc: http://www.europadisc.co.uk/classica...mber_Music.htm). ..

£17.25 including p&p form Presto Classical during their current promotion.

[LeMartinPecheur]

What about the version by the Suk Trio (Suk, Panenka, and Chuchro)? I'm pretty sure Supraphon keeps that set continuously available, at least as an import. That would be my choice.

Thanks for the reminder to go digging rfg - I have it on LP c/w Brahms #3 0p101. Had nearly forgotten it, though I was pretty sure that I must have had an LP version before getting it on CD. So far that appears to be just the one version, an ancient super-bargain on the Discover label by the Fortepianotrio Florestan.

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[Pulcinella]

Not a composer who features much in my collection, or a musical form that I like particularly ('I've never heard a trio play with such brio' has tainted me for life), but I found a version on a BBC Music Magazine CD (Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, and Denes Varjon; live Proms performance, 2009; vol 20, no 2) which I am listening to as I type.
Perhaps if I listen to this BaL, as I intend to, I will learn to appreciate the piece more.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I first became familiar with this work through playing it. When still at school, I teamed up with a violinist in the same year group and a cellist, two years younger. We simply played whatever music the school had in its store - palm court, Haydn, Beethoven, Marschner, and this Mendelssohn trio. The Mendelssohn was far and way our favourite. Many years later my sons just happened to play the violin and the cello, so in came the Mendelssohn D minor for a revival.

[richardfinegold]

I first became familiar with this work through playing it. When still at school, I teamed up with a violinist in the same year group and a cellist, two years younger. We simply played whatever music the school had in its store - palm court, Haydn, Beethoven, Marschner, and this Mendelssohn trio. The Mendelssohn was far and way our favourite. Many years later my sons just happened to play the violin and the cello, so in came the Mendelssohn D minor for a revival.

Nice

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Don't miss it.

[verismissimo]

Don't miss it.

Certainly not!

[Tony Halstead]

I first became familiar with this work through playing it. When still at school, I teamed up with a violinist in the same year group and a cellist, two years younger. We simply played whatever music the school had in its store - palm court, Haydn, Beethoven, Marschner, and this Mendelssohn trio. The Mendelssohn was far and way our favourite. Many years later my sons just happened to play the violin and the cello, so in came the Mendelssohn D minor for a revival.

Wow, you must be / have been quite a whizzo pianist, EA...! I tried to play it when I was about 18 and it was 'the piece' that finally finished me off as a 'first study' pianist at music college, pointing me in the direction of the French horn and its repertoire of rather fewer notes to play.

[vinteuil]

...pointing me in the direction of the French horn and its repertoire of rather less notes to play.

... fewer notes, perhaps - but surely not less!

[verismissimo]

... fewer notes, perhaps - but surely not less!

Pedants' Corner, vints!