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Wolf-Ferrari: The Two Piano Trios
Brilliant Classics

Wolf-Ferrari: The Two Piano Trios

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Details

Composer
WOLF-FERRARI, ERMANNO
Artist
TRIO ARCHE
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Sep 07, 2018
Catalog #
BRI95624
UPC
5028421956244

About

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948) focused on instrumental music at the beginning and towards the end of a career that was otherwise largely devoted to opera. The two trios for violin, cello and piano are early works, written at the time he was studying in Munich, or shortly afterwards. The first Trio in D major dates back to 1896, was premiered at the Tonkünstlerverein in Stuttgart in September of that same year and published as Op.5 in 1902 by Leuckart in Leipzig. The four movements of Op.5 abound in richly embroidered, Brahmsian melodies and impassioned statements and developments, free of the naivety that is often a feature of early works. That said, they do embody a certain innocence, a degree of gentleness, even a lightness of spirit that sets them apart from their composer's study of German models with teachers such as the organist Joseph Rheinberger. Parts of the Op.7 Trio may in fact have been written before Op.5, but the expression of the three-movement work as a whole is more individual, dominated as it is by a huge opening movement (almost 20 minutes in length), and often colored by a bitter chromaticism that Wolf-Ferrari would later relinquish in favor of a more light-hearted and lyrical idiom. Here is a technically gifted young composer stretching his creative muscles - and for all the breadth of expression, his writing for the notoriously tricky combination of instruments is notably sympathetic, allowing the two string instruments to flourish without being overwhelmed by the piano. This new studio album is the second recording of Trio Archè for Brilliant Classics after their well-received debut of trios by another Italian composer, now even less familiar than Wolf-Ferrari, Marco Enrico Bossi. Both albums make a ready appeal to all those listeners who travel the musical byways of late Romanticism.

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro molto moderato 14:54
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro molto moderato
    Duration
    14:54
    Composer
    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
    Ensemble
    Trio Archè
  2. 2 II. Presto 05:50
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Presto
    Duration
    05:50
    Composer
    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
    Ensemble
    Trio Archè
  3. 3 III. Larghetto 09:22
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Larghetto
    Duration
    09:22
    Composer
    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
    Ensemble
    Trio Archè
  4. 4 IV. Allegro vivace assai 09:40
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegro vivace assai
    Duration
    09:40
    Composer
    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
    Ensemble
    Trio Archè
  5. 5 I. Sostenuto 19:27
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Sostenuto
    Duration
    19:27
    Composer
    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
    Ensemble
    Trio Archè
  6. 6 II. Largo 06:30
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Largo
    Duration
    06:30
    Composer
    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
    Ensemble
    Trio Archè
  7. 7 III. Lievement mosso, e tranquillo sempre 04:27
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Lievement mosso, e tranquillo sempre
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
    Ensemble
    Trio Archè