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Ravel, Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios / Sitkovetsky Trio
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Ravel, Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios / Sitkovetsky Trio

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Details

Composer
RAVEL SAINT-SAENS
Artist
SITKOVETSKY TRIO
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Jul 02, 2021
Catalog #
BIS-2219
UPC
7318599922195

About

In 1892, when Camille Saint-Saëns started on his Piano Trio No. 2, almost 30 years had passed since his first, widely celebrated work in the genre, his Op. 18. In the meantime the composer had come to be regarded as hopelessly old-fashioned by many of his colleagues. In writing the trio, Saint-Saëns remained true to his principles as a composer, striving for balance and clarity and avoiding the chromaticism that had become so prevalent in the wake of Wagner. It is nevertheless an unexpectedly personal work, cast, in the unusual form of a symmetrical arch in five parts: two substantial and dramatic Allegros frame three shorter movements, without a proper scherzo or a true slow movement. Some 20 years later, shortly before the outbreak of World War I, Maurice Ravel set about composing his own piano trio, in spite of his conviction that the percussive sound of the piano and the sustained singing of the string instruments were fundamentally incompatible. According to Ravel, only Saint-Saëns – who he admired greatly – had managed to solve this problem. If Saint-Saëns was an inspiration to Ravel when composing his Piano Trio in A minor, there were also other influences: the work was written during a stay in the Basque country where Ravel was born and the theme that opens the first movement displays what he himself called ‘a Basque color’, employing the characteristic rhythms of the zortziko. The two works are here performed by the Sitkovetsky Trio, who have previously won great acclaim for their recordings of Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Dvorák.

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 I. Modéré 09:25
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Modéré
    Duration
    09:25
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  2. 2 II. Pantoum: Assez vif 04:22
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Pantoum: Assez vif
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  3. 3 III. Passacaille: Très large - 07:27
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Passacaille: Très large -
    Duration
    07:27
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Animé 05:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Animé
    Duration
    05:06
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  5. 5 I. Allegro non troppo 10:48
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro non troppo
    Duration
    10:48
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  6. 6 II. Allegretto 06:04
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Allegretto
    Duration
    06:04
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  7. 7 III. Andante con moto 04:10
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Andante con moto
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  8. 8 IV. Grazioso, poco allegro 04:38
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Grazioso, poco allegro
    Duration
    04:38
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  9. 9 V. Allegro 07:44
    Track
    9
    Title
    V. Allegro
    Duration
    07:44
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio