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Debussy, Ravel, Dukas, Schoenberg: Stolen Music - Trio Transcriptions / Linos Piano Trio
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Debussy, Ravel, Dukas, Schoenberg: Stolen Music - Trio Transcriptions / Linos Piano Trio

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Details

Composer
SCHOENBERG DUKAS RAVEL
Artist
LINOS PIANO TRIO
Format
CD
Label
CAvi-music
Released
Aug 06, 2021
Catalog #
AVI 8553035
UPC
4260085530359

About

This new recording from the Linos Piano Trio presents four iconic works from the turn of the 20th Century. The three French works, transcribed for piano trio by the Linos players themselves, are recorded for the first time here, while the Verklärte Nacht arrangement harks back to the inception of the Linos Piano Trio in 2007.

Transcriptions have, since the start of the 19th Century, acted as a precursor to modern day recordings. Works for larger ensembles were transcribed for smaller groups to make music at home, and the piano trio was among the favourite combinations for this purpose, with its rich sonic possibilities apt at recreating the orchestral sound. This aspect of the genre has fascinated the Linos Piano Trio from the beginning, its first ever performance being of Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht in the arrangement by Eduard Steuermann. 

Since 2016, the Linos Piano Trio has been taking this idea further, creating a series of its own transcriptions with the aim of reimagining each work as if originally conceived for piano trio. The transcriptions are all created collaboratively, evolving through experimentation and refinement, seeking the most colourful distillation of the original versions. Inspired by Stravinsky’s notion of creative stealing—taking something and making it one’s own—the Linos Piano Trio calls the project Stolen Music.

The four ambitious transcriptions here share a common thread: all are imbued with poetic images of transformation. The Debussy, Dukas and Schönberg are compositions based on poems by Mallarmé, Goethe, and Dehmel. In Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Mallarmé’s sensually symbolist images are translated into elusive harmonies. In Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice the music ‘paints’ the famous broom-conjuring tale literally, almost line-by-line, with its iconic rhythm uncannily echoing Goethe’s relentless tetrameter. Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht depicts, in an intensely emotional late-romantic sweep, the transfiguration of Dehmel’s poem. Ravel’s La Valse, a “poème chorégraphique”, evokes the sense of decadence and nostalgia of old Vienna, plotting “the birth, decay and destruction of a musical genre: the waltz”, as observed by composer George Benjamin.

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 Contrapunctus IV 03:15
    Track
    1
    Title
    Contrapunctus IV
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Gianluca Cascioli
  2. 2 Contrapunctus IX a 4 alla Duodecima 02:44
    Track
    2
    Title
    Contrapunctus IX a 4 alla Duodecima
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Gianluca Cascioli
  3. 3 Adagio in B Minor, K. 540 08:01
    Track
    3
    Title
    Adagio in B Minor, K. 540
    Duration
    08:01
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Heidrun Holtmann
  4. 4 Variations on a favorite Viennese Waltz, Op. 12, "Sehnsuchtswalzer" 05:12
    Track
    4
    Title
    Variations on a favorite Viennese Waltz, Op. 12, "Sehnsuchtswalzer"
    Duration
    05:12
    Composer
    Carl Czerny
    Performer
    François-Joël Thiollier
  5. 5 Valse Caprice No. 2, Op. 167, "Man lebt nur einmal" (arr. C. Tausig) 07:03
    Track
    5
    Title
    Valse Caprice No. 2, Op. 167, "Man lebt nur einmal" (arr. C. Tausig)
    Duration
    07:03
    Composer
    Johann Strauss II
    Performer
    François-Joël Thiollier
  6. 6 No. 1. Eintritt (Entering the Forest) 02:06
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 1. Eintritt (Entering the Forest)
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Robert Schumann
    Performer
    Delphine Bardin
  7. 7 No. 2. Jager auf der Lauer (Hunter on the Look-out) 01:24
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 2. Jager auf der Lauer (Hunter on the Look-out)
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    Robert Schumann
    Performer
    Delphine Bardin
  8. 8 Ballade No. 2 in B Minor, S171/R16 14:54
    Track
    8
    Title
    Ballade No. 2 in B Minor, S171/R16
    Duration
    14:54
    Composer
    Franz Liszt
    Performer
    Boris Bloch
  9. 9 13 Preludes, Op. 32: No. 5 in G Major: Moderato 02:44
    Track
    9
    Title
    13 Preludes, Op. 32: No. 5 in G Major: Moderato
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Performer
    Boris Bloch
  10. 10 Fantasy-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66 04:32
    Track
    10
    Title
    Fantasy-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66
    Duration
    04:32
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Boris Bloch
  11. 11 Waltz No. 5 in A-Flat Major, Op. 42 04:01
    Track
    11
    Title
    Waltz No. 5 in A-Flat Major, Op. 42
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Boris Bloch
  12. 12 Nocturne No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 48, No. 2 07:05
    Track
    12
    Title
    Nocturne No. 14 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 48, No. 2
    Duration
    07:05
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Igor Tchetuev
  13. 13 Etude No. 7 in C Major, Op. 10, No. 7 01:24
    Track
    13
    Title
    Etude No. 7 in C Major, Op. 10, No. 7
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Igor Tchetuev
  14. 14 Etude No. 8 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 8 02:12
    Track
    14
    Title
    Etude No. 8 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 8
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Igor Tchetuev
  15. 15 Etude No. 12 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12, "Revolutionary" 02:40
    Track
    15
    Title
    Etude No. 12 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12, "Revolutionary"
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Igor Tchetuev