account
basket
Challenge Records Int. logo
CPE BACH Complete Piano Trios
Ludwig van Beethoven

Linos Piano Trio

CPE BACH Complete Piano Trios

Price: € 22.95
Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085534807
Catnr: AVI 8553480
Release date: 05 June 2020
Buy
2 CD
✓ in stock
€ 22.95
Buy
 
Label
CAvi
UPC
4260085534807
Catalogue number
AVI 8553480
Release date
05 June 2020
Album
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
EN

About the album

CPE BACH: Complete Piano Trios

„In Hamburg, 1775, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, by then an internationally celebrated and well-connected figure, was surely aware of the genre’s popularity. After all, his half-brother, the London-based Johann Christian, was central in promoting this new culture of domestic piano playing. Responsive to the market demand, C.P.E. came to an agreement with the London publisher Bremner to publish the following year Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord or Pianoforte accompanied by Violin and Violoncello (Wq. 89). Despite the title, Bach referred to these works at times as Trios, at times as Sonatas, and sometimes even as “Trios (which are also Solos)”.

It seems he didn’t really know what to call them, as they sat in between his previously clear categories of Trios (in the Baroque trio-sonata format of two equal instrumental parts accompanied by basso continuo), keyboard solo works, and the “Soli” (works for various solo instruments to be accompanied by the continuo). His ambivalence towards this fashionable new genre was evident in a letter where he contemptuously referred to the
accompanied sonatas as a “non- or half-entity”.

But regardless, the publication was exceedingly successful, and Bach enjoyed what he probably considered a nice bonus to his usual duties of writing religious choral works: “I am having more luck than I have the right to expect. People are crazy about my modest concoction, from which one may profit.” He published two further sets (Wq. 90 and 91) with Breitkopf in Germany in 1776 and 1777, to great success.

Business acumen aside, these works reveal C.P.E. Bach at the height of his career and are full of invention, expression, and shocking surprises
that at times surpass what even Beethoven might dare to do..…..“ (Excerpt from the liner notes by LINOS PIANO TRIOS)

Artist(s)

Linos Piano Trio

The Linos Piano Trio brings together the members’ five nationalities and three musical voices into their single artistic vision, which pushes at the boundaries of the trio genre: championing hidden gems and creating new trio transcriptions alongside the great works of the trio repertoire. Praised for its “slow-burning, gripping performance” (The Strad), and “virtuosity, presence of mind, and wit” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), the Linos Piano Trio’s reputation has taken it to prestigious stages and festivals internationally. The trio’s first two recordings both received nominations for OPUS Klassik and several five-star reviews from across the European press. The latter, Stolen Music (BR& CAvi-music), won a Best-List award for chamber music at the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik 2022. Among other prizes and affiliations, the Linos Piano Trio was the 1st Prize and Audience Prize...
more

The Linos Piano Trio brings together the members’ five nationalities and three musical voices into their single artistic vision, which pushes at the boundaries of the trio genre: championing hidden gems and creating new trio transcriptions alongside the great works of the trio repertoire.
Praised for its “slow-burning, gripping performance” (The Strad), and “virtuosity, presence of mind, and wit” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), the Linos Piano Trio’s reputation has taken it to prestigious stages and festivals internationally. The trio’s first two recordings both received nominations for OPUS Klassik and several five-star reviews from across the European press.
The latter, Stolen Music (BR& CAvi-music), won a Best-List award for chamber music at the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik 2022.
Among other prizes and affiliations, the Linos Piano Trio was the 1st Prize and Audience Prize winner of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2015 and since 2017 holds the position of Carne Ensemble-in-Residence at Trinity Laban Conservatoire.
Linos (Λῖνος), in Greek mythology, was a son of Apollo. He received from his father the three-stringed lute, and became known as the inventor of new melodies, lyric songs, and eloquent speech. He was the teacher of Heracles and his brother Orpheus.
Thai-British musician Prach Boondiskulchok enjoys a diverse career as a pianist, historical keyboardist, and composer. He studied piano and composition at the Guildhall School as a Princess Galyani Vadhana Scholar. He is a founding member of the Linos Piano Trio.
Beyond his ensemble, Prach collaborates widely including recitals with Roger Chase, Steven Isserlis, Leonid Gorokhov.
His compositions include Night Suite (2014) praised by George Benjamin for its “ingenuity and imagination,” Ritus (2019) for Endellion String Quartet’s 40th Anniversary, and Ligatures (2021) for IMS Prussia Cove. A committed educator and scholar, Prach currently teaches chamber music at Royal College of Music London, is a Researcher of historical keyboards at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent.
Praised for his “perfectly poised“ (The Strad) music-making and “beautiful tone, articulated like speech“ (Klassikfavori), London-born German-Brazilian violinist Konrad Elias-Trostmann’s vivid performance style and natural flair for entertaining break down the wall often found between audience and performer.
Chamber music performances have brought him to venues from New York to São Paulo, and Konrad regularly appears in world-renowned orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
Currently based in Cologne, he enjoys a vibrant social life in whichever city he happens to be, and gathering inspiration from some of his greatest musical influences such as Whitney Houston and Dolly Parton.
Berlin-based French-born multi-faceted musician Vladimir Waltham is equally at home on Cello, Baroque Cello, and all sizes of da Gamba instruments. Praised for his “luminous tone” by Gramophone, Vladimir is passionate about sharing the broadest possible musical palette, in repertoire spanning from the Middle Ages to collaborations with composers and world premieres as well as everything in between.
Vladimir has performed in concert halls all around the world with his ensembles the Linos Piano Trio and La Serenissima, but also regularly appears as a guest soloist and chamber musician in halls and festivals worldwide.


less

Composer(s)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School.    Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob...
more
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include nine symphonies, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Together with Mozart and Haydn, he was part of the First Viennese School. Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire, Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe. At the age of 21 he moved to Vienna, where he began studying composition with Joseph Haydn, and gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. He lived in Vienna until his death. By his late 20s his hearing began to deteriorate, and by the last decade of his life he was almost totally deaf. In 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from these last 15 years of his life.

less

Press

Play album Play album
Disc #1
01.
Piano Trio No. 5 e-Moll / in E Minor (Der Schrecken / Terror): I Allegretto
04:54
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
02.
Piano Trio No. 5 e-Moll / in E Minor (Der Schrecken / Terror): II Larghetto
01:20
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
03.
Piano Trio No. 5 e-Moll / in E Minor (Der Schrecken / Terror): III Allegro
04:56
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
04.
Piano Trio No. 2 C-Dur / in C Major: I Andantino grazioso
05:03
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
05.
Piano Trio No. 2 C-Dur / in C Major: II Larghetto
01:23
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
06.
Piano Trio No. 2 C-Dur / in C Major: III Allegro
04:36
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
07.
Piano Trio No. 3 A-Dur / in A Major: I Allegretto
05:29
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
08.
Piano Trio No. 3 A-Dur / in A Major: II Arioso
01:11
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
09.
Piano Trio No. 3 A-Dur / in A Major: III Allegro di molto
02:34
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
10.
Piano Trio No. 6 D-Dur / in D Major (Das Majestätische / The Majestic): I Allegro
02:45
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
11.
Piano Trio No. 6 D-Dur / in D Major (Das Majestätische / The Majestic): II Andantino
02:56
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
12.
Piano Trio No. 6 D-Dur / in D Major (Das Majestätische / The Majestic): III Allegro
03:22
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
13.
Piano Trio No. 1 B-Dur / in B flat Major : I Allegretto
05:51
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
14.
Piano Trio No. 1 B-Dur / in B flat Major : II Larghetto
03:11
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
15.
Piano Trio No. 1 B-Dur / in B flat Major : III Allegro
03:46
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
16.
Piano Trio No. 4 Es-Dur / in E flat Major: I Andantino
04:39
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
17.
Piano Trio No. 4 Es-Dur / in E flat Major: II Andante
01:46
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio
18.
Piano Trio No. 4 Es-Dur / in E flat Major: III Tempo di Minuetto
02:45
(Ludwig van Beethoven) Linos Piano Trio

Disc #2
01.
Piano Trio No. 3 F-Dur / in F Major, Wq 91 (Wahnsinn / Madness): I Andante
05:19
02.
Piano Trio No. 3 F-Dur / in F Major, Wq 91 (Wahnsinn / Madness): II Adagio
01:22
03.
Piano Trio No. 3 F-Dur / in F Major, Wq 91 (Wahnsinn / Madness): III Allegretto
03:36
04.
Piano Trio No. 3 F-Dur / in F Major, Wq 90: I Allegro di molto
04:22
05.
Piano Trio No. 3 F-Dur / in F Major, Wq 90: II Larghetto
02:33
06.
Piano Trio No. 3 F-Dur / in F Major, Wq 90: III Allegretto
04:16
07.
Piano Trio No. 1 a-Moll / in A Minor, Wq 90: I Presto
04:05
08.
Piano Trio No. 1 a-Moll / in A Minor, Wq 90: II Andante
01:59
09.
Piano Trio No. 1 a-Moll / in A Minor, Wq 90: III Presto ma non tanto
02:33
10.
Piano Trio No. 2 G-Dur / in G Major, Wq 90: I Allegretto
04:41
11.
Piano Trio No. 2 G-Dur / in G Major, Wq 90: II Larghetto
00:39
12.
Piano Trio No. 2 G-Dur / in G Major, Wq 90: III Grazioso e poco allegro
04:50
13.
Piano Trio No. 1 e-Moll / in E Minor, Wq 91: I Allegretto
04:09
14.
Piano Trio No. 1 e-Moll / in E Minor, Wq 91: II Poco andante
01:03
15.
Piano Trio No. 1 e-Moll / in E Minor, Wq 91: III Allegretto
03:09
16.
Piano Trio No. 2 D-Dur / in D Major, Wq 91: I Allegretto
05:32
17.
Piano Trio No. 2 D-Dur / in D Major, Wq 91: II Andante
00:45
18.
Piano Trio No. 2 D-Dur / in D Major, Wq 91: III Allegretto grazioso
03:59
19.
Piano Trio No. 4 C-Dur / in C Major, Wq 91: Arioso
14:32
show all tracks

Often bought together with..

Johann Sebastian Bach
Die Kunst der Fuga, BWV 1080 (Mus. ms. Bach P 200)
Alberto Rasi / Accademia Strumentale Italiana
BlueZzin T’il Dawn
Natalia M. King

You might also like..

Ludwig van Beethoven, Erwin Schulhoff
Berlin 1923, Beethoven & Schulhoff
Herbert Schuch
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven, Violin Sonatas Nos 3, 7 & 8
Antje Weithaas | Dénes Várjon
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven, Sonatas Vol. 3
Daniel Heide
Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven
Hommage à Beethoven
Aris Alexander Blettenberg
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven, Violin Sonatas Nos 2, 4 & 9 Kreutzer
Antje Weithaas | Dénes Várjon
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel, In Search of Lost Dance
Linos Piano Trio
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert, Schwanengesang
Andreas Bauer Kanabas & Daniel Heide
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart, String Quartets complete (7-CD set)
Armida Quartett
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart, Sonatas & Fantasies
Elena Bashkirova
José Maria Sánchez-Verdú, Joseph Haydn
Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz & Sheba
Capella Augustina & Andreas Spering
Franz Schubert, Leoš Janáček
Soulmates
Herbert Schuch
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven, Sonatas Vol. 2
Daniel Heide