Boellmann: Piano Trio Op. 19; Piano Quartet, Op. 10 / Causse, Trio Parnassus
"Leon Boellmann is known chiefly as an organ composer, but he also wrote piano and orchestral works and contributed to the revival of French chamber music during the course of his short life: he was born in 1862 and died in 1897. These two pieces are quite original and well-crafted. The quartet opens over rather strange, murky textures with a striding piano theme which it develops effectively...the manner here suggests Franck. Almost as inevitably, it is the spirit of Saint-Saens that hovers, not to the music's disadvantage, over the scherzo...The Trio is more advanced in every way, not least in the enterprising formal design as well as in the more advanced chromatic harmony. Boellmann was a fine musician, and this is not organists' music in any pejorative sense: rather, he used great mastery of the materials of music to explore a modest but distinctive lyrical manner."
-- J.W., Gramophone [11/1993]
Product Description:
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Release Date: June 01, 2012
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Catalog Number: 3031755-2
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UPC: 760623175522
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Label: MDG
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Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Léon Boëllmann
Orchestra/Ensemble: Parnassus Trio
Performer: Chia Chou, Gérard Caussé, Michael Gross, Yamei Yu
Works:
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Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in G major, Op. 19
Composer: Léon Boëllmann
Ensemble: Parnassus Trio
Performer: Chia Chou (Piano), Michael Gross (Cello), Yamei Yu (Violin)
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Quartet for Piano and Strings in F minor, Op. 10
Composer: Léon Boëllmann
Ensemble: Parnassus Trio
Performer: Gérard Caussé (Viola)
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Pieces (2) for Cello and Piano, Op. 31
Composer: Léon Boëllmann
Ensemble: Parnassus Trio
Performer: Chia Chou (Piano), Michael Gross (Cello)
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Versets aus Heures Mysiques, Op. 30
Composer: Léon Boëllmann
Ensemble: Parnassus Trio
Performer: Chia Chou (Piano), Michael Gross (Cello), Yamei Yu (Violin)