Tchaikovsky & Bloch piano trios

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All his life Tchaikovsky struggled against what he himself called ‘the inability in gene- ral to maintain a good grip on form. I have fought this innate weakness and – some- thing I’m proud of – not without some decent results. Nonetheless I will go to my grave without having produced anything at all which has a perfect form.’ Dilettantism was anathema to him: ‘You really have to outdo yourself if you want to avoid lapsing into dilettantism, of which even someone as gifted as Glinka was not entirely free…’ Although Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky is generally seen as belonging to the Western-orientated Russian school, as indeed are most of his professional colleagues in Moscow, his musical art was not in fact very far removed from the ideals of the so-called ‘Mighty Five’ (or ‘Mighty Handful’.) In 1869 he met Balakirev, the actual founder of this national school in Petersburg. Balakirev recognized the young Tchaikovsky’s talent and would ideally have liked to include him in his group. But the greatest problem as he saw it was that Tchaikovsky had received a formal conservatoire education, and that clashed with his ideals of an uncultivated, original Russian music.
Ernest Bloch belongs to the large group of twentieth-century composers who, though not wishing to be associated with the avant-garde, equally did not distance themselves from the latest developments. He studied violin and composition in his native city Geneva, and later in Brussels and Frankfurt. His early compositions reveal a great curiosity about everything that was new and unknown at the time: Wagnerian chromaticism, the orchestral expansivity of Richard Strauss, and then the subtle timbres of Debussy and the block chords of Stravinsky.

 

 

 

 

Tracklist

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1.
Piano Trio in a opus 50 -Pezzo Elegiaco
18:32
2.
Piano Trio in a opus 50 -Tema con Variazioni
01:12
3.
Piano Trio in a opus 50 - Variazione I
00:53
4.
Piano Trio in a opus 5- Variazione II
00:41
5.
Piano Trio in a opus 50- Variazione III
00:59
6.
Piano Trio in a opus 50 - Variazione IV
01:05
7.
Piano Trio in a opus 50 - Variazione V
00:44
8.
Piano Trio in a opus 50 - Variazione VI
02:33
9.
Piano Trio in a opus 50 - Variazione VII
01:28
10.
Piano Trio in a opus 50 - Variazione VIII
02:52
11.
Piano Trio in a opus 50 - Variazione IX
02:54
12.
Piano Trio in a opus 50 - Variazione X
01:47
13.
Piano Trio in a opus 50 - Variazione XI
02:31
14.
Piano Trio in a opus 50 - Variazione Finale e Coda
07:33
15.
Three Nocturnes - Andante
02:49
16.
Three Nocturnes - Andante quieto
02:39
17.
Three Nocturnes - Tempestoso
02:30

Total time: 00:53:42

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Label

SKU

COBRA0020

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Genres

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Digital Converters

dCS 904 AD/905 DA

Mastering Engineer

Tom Peeters

Mastering Equipment

KEF Reference Series 107

Microphones

B&K 4003, modified by Rens Heijnis

Mixing Board

Rens Heijnis custom made

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Original Recording Format

Producer

Tom Peeters

Recording Engineer

Tom Peeters

Recording location

Doopsgezinde kerk, Deventer, Holland

Recording Software

Pyramix

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DSD64

Release DateJanuary 22, 2015

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