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Kuhlau: 7 Flute Trios / Flute East Trio
Brilliant Classics

Kuhlau: 7 Flute Trios / Flute East Trio

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Composer
KUHLAU, FRIEDRICH
Artist
FLUTE EAST TRIO
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Jan 01, 2021
Catalog #
BRI96087
UPC
5028421960876

About

Born in Hamburg in 1786, the son of a military bandsman, Friedrich Kuhlau showed early musical promise and took lessons with a student of CPE Bach. When Napoleon’s troops invaded Hamburg in 1810, the 24-year-old Kuhlau fled with his family to Copenhagen, and there he made his name as a pianist and composer to the royal court. Taking Danish citizenship in 1813, he worked in the vanguard of the country’s fast-moving cultural scene, enjoying huge success as a composer of operas and incidental music. Kuhlau was himself a flautist of modest accomplishment, but the popularity of salon culture in Denmark increased the demand for flute and piano music - which were both fashionable at the time - to such an extent that Kuhlau complained, in a letter to his publisher in 1829, about having too many commissions. While a flautist of modest accomplishment himself, Kuhlau wrote with unfailing craft, sympathy and imagination for the instrument and before their publication he submitted his new works for approval from the principal flautist of the Court Chapel’s orchestra. The seven trios recorded here display a surprising variety of texture and mood. Even the trio of Op.13 works from 1815 ranges from the Baroque manners of No.3’s Adagio to a much grander scale of expression in the slow introduction which opens the curtain on No.1 and on the set as a whole. There is a dashing, Mendelssohnian quality to both the melodies and the sunny disposition of the Op.86 set from 1827 which itself is set aside for a more intense, Beethovenian argument in the grand trio Op.90. In 2015 three Asian flautists founded the Flute East Trio at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.

Tracklist 22 tracks

  1. 1 I. Adagio - Allegro 11:13
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Adagio - Allegro
    Duration
    11:13
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  2. 2 II. Andante quasi adagio 03:56
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante quasi adagio
    Duration
    03:56
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  3. 3 III. Rondo: Allegro 05:13
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro
    Duration
    05:13
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  4. 4 I. Allegro non tanto 05:44
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro non tanto
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  5. 5 II. Allegro con moto 04:16
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Allegro con moto
    Duration
    04:16
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  6. 6 I. Allegro 06:22
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    06:22
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  7. 7 II. Adagio (con dolcezza) 01:56
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Adagio (con dolcezza)
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  8. 8 III. Minuetto 03:33
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Minuetto
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  9. 9 I. Allegro non tanto 10:15
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Allegro non tanto
    Duration
    10:15
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  10. 10 II. Scherzo 04:23
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Scherzo
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  11. 11 III. Adagio 04:23
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Adagio
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  12. 12 IV. Allegro poco agitato 04:44
    Track
    12
    Title
    IV. Allegro poco agitato
    Duration
    04:44
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  13. 13 I. Allegro 08:38
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    08:38
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  14. 14 II. Scherzo e Trio 03:15
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Scherzo e Trio
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  15. 15 III. Larghetto 02:50
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Larghetto
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  16. 16 IV. Rondo 06:31
    Track
    16
    Title
    IV. Rondo
    Duration
    06:31
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  17. 17 I. Allegro assai 11:49
    Track
    17
    Title
    I. Allegro assai
    Duration
    11:49
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  18. 18 II. Ancien Air Suédois: Allegretto - Variation 1 - Variation 2 - Variation 3: Più moto - Variation 4 - Variation 5 - Variation 6: Andante - Variation 7: Allegro assai - Andante 07:51
    Track
    18
    Title
    II. Ancien Air Suédois: Allegretto - Variation 1 - Variation 2 - Variation 3: Più moto - Variation 4 - Variation 5 - Variation 6: Andante - Variation 7: Allegro assai - Andante
    Duration
    07:51
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  19. 19 III. Rondo: Allegro molto 07:16
    Track
    19
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro molto
    Duration
    07:16
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  20. 20 I. Allegro non troppo 12:23
    Track
    20
    Title
    I. Allegro non troppo
    Duration
    12:23
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  21. 21 II. Adagio 04:17
    Track
    21
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    04:17
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio
  22. 22 III. Allegro non tanto 07:00
    Track
    22
    Title
    III. Allegro non tanto
    Duration
    07:00
    Composer
    Friedrich Kuhlau
    Ensemble
    Flute East Trio