BaL 21.05.11 - Schubert: Piano Trio in B flat, D.898

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Stephen Johnson with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat, D.898

Available versions:

Max Brod Trio
Jean-Claude Pennetier (piano), Régis Pasquier (violin) & Roland Pidoux (cello)
Storioni Trio Amsterdam
Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon & Frank Braley
Jean-Philippe Collard, Augustin Dumay & Frédéric Lodeon
Borodin Trio
Beaux Arts Trio
Beaux Arts Trio
The Florestan Trio
Wiener Schubert Trio
Marc Coppey (cello), Ilya Gringolts (violin) & Peter Laul (piano)
The Schubert Ensemble
Klaviertrio Amsterdam
Odeon Trio
Haydn-Trio Wien
The David Trio
Suk Trio
Fujita Piano Trio
Trio Wanderer
The Gryphon Trio
Guarneri Trio Prague
Israel Piano Trio
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Lynn Harrell (cello) & Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Trio Italiano
Lars Vogt (piano), Antje Weithaas (violin), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello)
Vienna Piano Trio
Artur Schnabel (piano) Joseph Szigeti (violin), Pierre Fournier (cello)
Pablo Casals, Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud
Stuttgart Piano Trio
Emanuel Feuermann (cello), Jascha Heifetz (violin), Arthur Rubinstain (piano)
Abegg Trio
Stefano Barneschi (Violin), Federica Valli (Fortepiano), Paolo Beschi (Cello)
Yefim Bronfmann (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin) & Gautier Capuçon (cello)
Arion Trio
Gerhard Taschner (violin), Ludwig Hoelscher, Walter Gieseking & Hubert Giesen
András Schiff (piano), Yuuko Shiokawa (violin) & Miklós Perényi (cello)
David Oistrakh (violin), Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (cello) & Lev Oborin (piano)
Yehudi Menuhin, Maurice Gendron, Hephzibah Menuhin
Stern, Istomin, Rose
Fournier, Janigro, Badura-Skoda
Rubinstein, Szeryng, Fournier
Trio di Trieste

[Don Petter]

How could you miss out Stern/Istomin/Rose?

[verismissimo]

Because it's not effectively available, Don?

[Don Petter]

I've always found Amazon quite effective?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Schubert-Piano-Trio-Brahms-String/dp/B0002J58ZG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304843924&sr=1-1

[Don Petter]

And - Fournier/Janigro/Badura-Skoda (Available from Pristine).

Also - Rubinstein/Szeryng/Fournier (Amazon).

[Not playing a game against Alpen here, just that I keep thinking of recordings that I value, or of interest.]

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

[Not playing a game against Alpen here, just that I keep thinking of recordings that I value, or of interest.]

Not taken in that way at all, DP. I'll add these versions to the list.

[Don Petter]

Another one I rate highly would be that by the Trio di Trieste, on DG, though currently only available from some Amazon vendors, it would seem, rather than Amazon itself, so maybe not in play?

Although - Are downloads included these days? I now see that the Trio di Trieste DG 5CD box set, which of course includes D898, can be downloaded from Amazon for less than £23.


Of course, you can just download the four tracks of D898, if my maths is correct, for £4.46.

[verismissimo]

I appear to have Oistrakh/Knushevitsky/Oborin, Heifetz/Feuermann/Rubinstein and (my first) a very ancient Saga LP by Galimir/Varga/Nadas. I'll re-listen to them.

[salymap]

I have Schneider, Casals, Istomin on a very precious LP, the record and the giver were special to me.

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

There's an extremely good period instrument version on Sony with Jos van Immerseel, Vera Beths and Anner Bylsma.

[LeMartinPecheur]

My introduction to this work as a student in the 70s was Stern, Rose, Istomin - nice to see that DP apparently holds it still in high regard. Then Busch, Busch, Serkin on LP, then Beaux Arts (r.1960s) and Cortot, Thibaud, Casals on CD.

I haven't got a digital version!!!!

[vinteuil]

There's an extremely good period instrument version on Sony with Jos van Immerseel, Vera Beths and Anner Bylsma.

I agree - other good HIP versions:

Mozartean players (Steven Lubin/Stanley Ritchie/Myron Lutzke)

and my favourite:-
la Gaia Scienza (Federica Valli/Stefano Barneschi/Paolo Beschi)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Zukermann/Harrell/Ashkenazy is rather fine, if you're happy with a very slightly aggressive sound.

[knodge41]

A DVD of both Schubert Trios, performed by the Beaux Arts, was issued in January this year on ICAClassics:

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=931086

This recordings took place in the Signet Library, Edinburgh on 21st Nov and 13th Dec 1978.

The fiming of these performance was, I believe, one of the last activities of the Beaux Arts Trio as the cellist, Bernard Greenhouse retired shorly afterwards.

I was sorry to hear that Bernard recently died (aged 95) - on May 13.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/8515229/Bernard-Greenhouse.html

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well i was so looking forward to this and did greatly appreciate the extracts but the coverage of the field was so thin i was left feeling very let down ...