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Chopin & Elsner: Fortepiano Trios
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Chopin & Elsner: Fortepiano Trios

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Details

Composer
CHOPIN ELSNER
Artist
TRIO MARGAUX
Format
CD
Label
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Released
Nov 11, 2016
Catalog #
PH16069
UPC
881488160697

About

Frederic Chopin’s Piano Trio op. 8 is one of his fully fledged masterpieces, even though the composer completed it at the young age of 19. Chopin wrote it between 1828-1829, during his studies at The Royal University of Warsaw under the aegis of his instructor for composition, Joseph Elsner. As the musicologist Maciej Galub remarked, Chopin felt he had to face three challenges as debuting composer: Appropriating the great form, then contending with the “brilliant” style of the piano compositions by his contemporaries Hummel, Weber or Ries, and finally establishing a national Polish musical idiom, for instance by using folk dances. In his piano trio, Chopin overcame these three challenges masterfully. The Piano Trio in B-flat major by Joseph Elsner, which is included on this release, was published in Vienna under the title “Grande Sonate pour le Clavecin ou Forte-piano avec Accompagnement d’un Violon et Violoncelle oblige.” Formally it corresponds to the model with three movements for the piano trios from Haydn and Mozart. The first movement is an energetic sonata allegro. This is followed by a melodic imaginative larghetto. The finale consists of a bright rondo, whose theme has folk-like features.

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro con fuoco 11:19
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro con fuoco
    Duration
    11:19
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Ensemble
    Margaux Trio
  2. 2 II. Scherzo con moto ma non troppo 06:53
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Scherzo con moto ma non troppo
    Duration
    06:53
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Ensemble
    Margaux Trio
  3. 3 III. Adagio sostenuto 06:05
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Adagio sostenuto
    Duration
    06:05
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Ensemble
    Margaux Trio
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Allegretto 06:35
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegretto
    Duration
    06:35
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Ensemble
    Margaux Trio
  5. 5 I. Allegro 08:47
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    08:47
    Composer
    Józef Antoni Franciszek Elsner
    Ensemble
    Margaux Trio
  6. 6 II. Larghetto 05:02
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Larghetto
    Duration
    05:02
    Composer
    Józef Antoni Franciszek Elsner
    Ensemble
    Margaux Trio
  7. 7 III. Rondo: Allegro 05:02
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro
    Duration
    05:02
    Composer
    Józef Antoni Franciszek Elsner
    Ensemble
    Margaux Trio