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NAPRAVNIK: Chamber Music = Piano Trios; Piano Pieces – Spyros Piano Trio – MDG

by Audiophile Audition | Jun 2, 2017 | SACD & Other Hi-Res Reviews

NAPRAVNIK: Chamber Music = Piano Trio in g minor, Op. 24; Piano Pieces, Op. 84: Melancolie, No. 3 (arr. Spyros Trio and Myroslav Krill); Piano Trio in d minor, 62 – Spyros Piano Trio – MDG multichannel SACD 903 1996-6, 69:32 (3/31/17) [Distr. by eOne] ****: Noted more for his conducting legacy, composer Eduard Napravnik’s piano trios deserve wider acclaim. Eduard Napravnik (1839-1916) maintains a solid reputation in both his native Czechoslovakia and his adopted country Russia, especially for his extensive work, 1869-1879 with the Maryinsky Theatre, where, serving as principal conductor, he led 4000 operatic performances, among them 500 of Glinka’s A Life for the Czar. Napravnik’s affection for and loyalty to the music of other composers eventually encroached on his own creativity, and he stopped writing his own music – some 200 published works – after 1906. The quality of his orchestra-building became no less spectacular, and both Felix Mottl and Gustav Mahler praised Maryinsky chorus and orchestra for their thorough preparation for performances led by these guests, each of whom compared the ensembles favorably to the Vienna Philharmonic. The Spyros Piano Trio – Bartek Niziol, violin; Denis Severin, cello; and Tatiana Korsunskaya, piano – present the complete […]