Adaskin Trio Archive

MOZART: Piano Quartet; Oboe Quartet; Oboe “Kegelstatt” Trio – Adaskin String Trio/ Sally Pinkas, p./ Thomas Gallant, ob. – MSR Classics

by Audiophile Audition | Jul 23, 2017 | Classical CD Reviews

MOZART: Piano Quartet in E-flat, K.493; Oboe Quartet in F, K.370/368b; Oboe Trio in E-Flat, K.498 “Kegelstatt” – Adaskin String Trio/ Sally Pinkas, p./ Thomas Gallant, ob. – MSR Classics MS 1447, 62:02 [Distr. by Albany] ****: High quality readings of three seminal Mozart works, and one with a twist. “What Mozart Oboe Trio?” you might rightly ask. No, it’s not a header misprint, and the “Kegelstatt” appellation applies here. It’s simply an arrangement—the first on record per the notes of this release—for Mozart’s formidable piano trio. Unlike Haydn, who really went to town with his 40-odd compositions in the genre, Mozart wrote only seven—eight if you include the early Divertimento, K 254—and this one, easily the most popular, was darkened and sonically blended by the substitution of the clarinet for the violin, and the viola for the cello. The result is one of the most intriguing and richest aural tapestries in the literature. The composer didn’t set out to make any kind of statement with this, but instead wrote according to the dictates of the instrumentation available, in this case Anton Stadler on clarinet (Mozart himself took the viola part). Curiously, when the Trio was published, it was listed […]