Pieter Wispelwey
The Complete Duos / Trockne Blumen
- Type CD
- Label Evil Penguin
- UPC 0608917720723
- Catalog number EPRC 0021
- Release date 27 November 2015
About the album
Following up on the acclaimed debut to their Duo Pilgrimage, cello virtuoso Pieter Wispelwey and his piano pal Paolo Giacometti continue their exploration of the complete duos by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms.
On the second installment of this 6 CD-journey, they investigate the dark color of the E minor key which pervades two milestones of the chamber genre. Brahms’ enigmatically somber Sonata for Piano and Violoncello op. 38 was the first major work for this combination since Beethoven’s iconic contributions half a century earlier. And in his Trockne Blumen variations, Schubert accomplishes a stunning instrumental dissection of a young miller’s hope grown cold after his rejection by “die Schöne Müllerin”; originally intended for piano and flute, the version on this disc is the world premiere recording with a violoncello instead of a flute. Slightly brighter – though not a lot in A minor – is the unusually crafty and unpredictable Sonatina D. 385 Schubert wrote at the age of 19.
Wispelwey and Giacometti have been called “exceptionally imaginative and impassioned performers” (American Record Guide), and their collaboration has spawned recordings rated as “fascinating, provocative, almost perverse” (Sunday Times). The first installment of the Duo Pilgrimage was hailed a “successful launch” (Kulturradio) on account of the “unspoken complicity between two virtuosi (…) who accomplish a sparkling, playful, cantabile account” (Cobra.be).
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11Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, D. 802, op. 160 Introduction, Andante
02:50 -
12Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, D. 802, op. 160 Thema. Andantino
01:57 -
13Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, D. 802, op. 160 Variation I
01:41 -
14Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, D. 802, op. 160 Variation II
01:50 -
15Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, D. 802, op. 160 Variation III
02:36 -
16Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, D. 802, op. 160 Variation IV
01:55 -
17Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, D. 802, op. 160 Variation V
02:23 -
18Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, D. 802, op. 160 Variation VI
02:39 -
19Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen, D. 802, op. 160 Variation VII
03:14 -
110Sonata in e minor, op. 38 I. Allegro non troppo
14:03 -
111Sonata in e minor, op. 38 II. Allegretto quasi Menuetto
05:05 -
112Sonata in e minor, op. 38 III. Allegro
06:26 -
113Sonatine in a minor, D. 385, op. 137/2 I. Allegro moderato
09:16 -
114Sonatine in a minor, D. 385, op. 137/2 II. Andante
07:34 -
115Sonatine in a minor, D. 385, op. 137/2 III. Menuetto. Allegro
02:18 -
116Sonatine in a minor, D. 385, op. 137/2 IV. Allegro
04:22