Bal 17.12.11 Schumann's Piano Trio no. 1 in D minor

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Saturday 17th December at 9.30 a.m.
Erica Jeal with a personal recommendation for Schumann's Piano Trio No 1 in D Minor Op.63

Available versions:

Florestan Trio
Paul Tortelier (cello) etc.
Arthur Rubinstein (piano) etc.
David Oistrakh (violin), Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (cello) & Lev Oborin (piano)
Quatuor Via Nova
Nash Ensemble
Beaux Arts Trio
Nicholas Angelich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin) & Gautier Capuçon (cello)
Edwin Fischer with Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin) & Enrico Mainardi (cello)
Grieg Trio
Trio Italiano
Pablo Casals, Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud
Anders Kilstrom (piano), Tobias Ringborg (violin), John Ehde (cello)
Abegg Trio
Borodin Trio
Vienna Brahms Trio
Emil Gilels, Leonid Kogan & Mstislav Rostropovitch
Gordan Nikolitch (violin), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Christophe Coin (cello) & Eric Le Sage (piano)
The Benvenue Fortepiano Trio: Monica Huggett (violin), Tanya Tomkins (cello) & Eric Zivian (fortepiano)
Swiss Piano Trio: Angela Golubeva (violin), Sébastien Singer (cello) & Martin Lucas Staub (piano)
Trio Parnassus
Voces Intimae: Riccardo Cecchetti (piano), Luigi De Filippi (violin) & Sandro Meo (cello)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin) & Tanja Tetzlaff (cello)
Vienna Piano Trio
Ilya Gringolts (violin), Peter Laul (piano) & Dmitry Kouzov (cello)
Ilya Gringolts (violin), Peter Laul (piano) & Dmitry Kouzov (cello)
The Israel Piano Trio

[visualnickmos]

I have the Beaux Arts - Philips 'Duo' series. I like it.

[Rolmill]

EA,

I only have the Florestan Trio (Hyperion) in this piece. No point of comparison, therefore, but I find them very satisfying - I see it's not on your list, is it nla?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

EA,
I only have the Florestan Trio (Hyperion) in this piece. No point of comparison, therefore, but I find them very satisfying - I see it's not on your list, is it nla?

I thought I had included this, but you are quite right - I didn't. So now it heads the list.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Cortot, Thibaud and Casals seems to be my only version. Decent place to start, but the work has never done much for me. Will hope to learn the error of my ways on the 17th!

[Barbirollians]

A hot sounding field but I too have found the Florestan immensely rewarding.

[verismissimo]

I've only ever had the Trio Petrus. They were recorded for a limited edition by Patek Philippe (the watchmakers), following the violinist Raphael Oleg's success in a Moscow competition in 1986. The other players were Francois Guye (cello) and Hortense Cartier-Bresson (piano).

Never been one of my favourite Schumann works. But maybe BAL will open some new doors to it.

[Nick Armstrong]

NB: This Building a Library starts at 9:05 (not the usual 9:30) to make way at 9:50 for the critics' review of the year.....

I'll flag it on a separate thread, I think. Often, I start listening at 9:30 for BAL and would be annoyed to find it half done, so maybe some others might be spared that irritation...

[Nick Armstrong]

NB: 9:05 START FOR BAL 17.12.11 (Schumann Trio No 1)

That's the sole purpose of the thread, to draw attention to the changed start time...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Thanks for that, Caliban.

[DracoM]

Doh! Didn't spot this!

[LeMartinPecheur]

Cortot, Thibaud and Casals seems to be my only version. Decent place to start, but the work has never done much for me. Will hope to learn the error of my ways on the 17th!

Doh, completely failed to learn the error of my ways this morning. Must admit that my concentration easily wandered: 'fraid the work still didn't do much to grab it. No doubt my fault. Verismissimo: did you do any better?

[visualnickmos]

Well, I see that this BaL has generated an overwhelming response!!! I didn't even manage to hear it, and inspite of this late hour, I STILL don't know the final recommendation! What, pray, what is going on??? Think I'll stick with my Beaux Arts, in any case...

[HighlandDougie]

Kogan, Gilels, Rostropovich - sounded pretty good for 1958 - with the Florestan Trio as a modern alternative. Very good BAL (reasoned arguments behind the opinions) - a work I hardly know (I've heard it once in concert a long time ago) but got my attention so I will investigate further.

[verismissimo]

Must admit that my concentration easily wandered: 'fraid the work still didn't do much to grab it. No doubt my fault. Verismissimo: did you do any better?

Haven't had a chance to listen yet, LMP. I have to do a piano practice with my 9yo daughter at that time, then take her to her lesson.