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SCHUBERT: Piano Trio; “Trout” Quintet – Trio Wanderer/ Christophe Gaugue (vla.)/ Stephanie Logerot (bass) – HM

by Audiophile Audition | Jun 15, 2017 | Classical CD Reviews

SCHUBERT: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929; “Trout” Quintet in A Major, D. 667 – Trio Wanderer/ Christophe Gaugue, viola/ Stephanie Logerot, double bass – Harmonia mundi HMX 2908748. 80:27 (6/23/17) [Distr. by Harmonia mundi/PIAS] *****: Two chamber music Schubert marvels from the archives of the Trio Wanderer celebrate their 30th anniversary. Schubert began his E-flat Major Piano Trio in 1827, a monumental work of pointed emotional contradictions and even periodic anguish. Robert Schumann took careful notice of this music, calling the opening Allegro a “furious meteor.”  Comprised of four themes,  the first of these undergoes the least transformation, while the last becomes a principal motif for the dramatically virile score, which expands to a breadth exceeded only by the “Great” C Major Symphony. Movie as well as music lovers know the poignant Andante con moto through the vehicle of director Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 period drama Barry Lyndon, one of the more realistic treatments of military life, based on Thackeray’s novel. This remarkable, frequently haunted movement enjoys the splendid benefit of Raphael Pidoux’s resonant cello. This melancholy theme will return in the Allegro moderato finale, a kind of tragic reminiscence. The 2000 recording remains attractively bright in […]