Schubert - Piano Trio 2 [Trio Wanderer]A nice set of the Schubert Piano Trios, which include the two shorter pieces that Schubert wrote for Piano Trio as well [the Notturno D897 is especially beautiful], both trios are composed in a major key, and all of the movements are happy ones, except both slow movements, here there's a degree of melancholy, my preference seems to be towards the Second Trio, the melodies are just that bit more inventive, the piano has some nice things to do.
The Trio Wanderer are French, they formed as three students in 1987, and they are,
Vincent Coq - Piano
Jean-Marc Philips-Varajabedian - Violin
Raphael Pidoux - Cello
I so much enjoyed the second movement of this Trio, in some ways it's like a set of very loose variations, it starts off with a rather robotic piano toll [0:00-1:56], with the cello taking up the tune, a little later it's transformed in a wonderful way with a more lyrical violin and rippling piano [1:56-3:03], a nice transition, about halfway through the movement, there's an agitation, starting in the piano [4:43+], it spills over into the strings [5:09+], as they become more intense and louder, the piano too becomes forte in the treble [5:21+], after this comes probably the most satisfying section of the piece, there's a lovely rippling piano [5:46-6:58] as the cello sings sweetly and the violin pizzicatos at first, it has a wonderful flow to it, right at the end the piano trickles out the tune with the strings pizzicato [8:35+], a nice coda, especially when the strings bow [8:58+], another beautiful creation from Schubert.
And here's the Trio Wanderer playing this movement on YouTube.
