Schubert - Piano Trio 1 [The London Mozart Trio]
This is a recent acquisition, and i played it for the first time today, also i'm completely unfamiliar with The London Mozart Trio, but i really enjoyed delving into this disc today, the coupling is a curious one, and it makes me realise how much i don't know the Dvorak work as well as i should, it's Schubert's Trio 2 that i prefer out of his two, but here i marvelled at the first one, it's such a musically strong work, and played really well too.
The London Mozart Trio are a bit of a mystery, the booklet doesn't have any information on the Trio, or any of its members, they recorded this disc in 1991, the IMP classics label was a really nice one, this one has a black & white shot of the Trio, the shadows and light are terrific, there's a certain glow to the highlights, the IMP logo on the right makes a wonderful dash of colour, and the lettering in the bottom left balances out the picture nicely, visually a great product.
Well it was the big first movement i enjoyed the most, and like lots of Schubert, it's music that keeps going round and round like a carousel, one of the things i notice is the Pianist can be quite loud at times, he likes to thump them keys at times, the recording is lovely, but sometimes it has difficulty capturing the sheer dynamic range of everything, after a general introduction, all three instruments take turns playing one of the main themes [1:58-2:24], cello / violin / piano, and four minutes later it comes back again [5:46-6:13], i almost expect there to be some sort of trio section in the middle to break up the almost 15 minutes of the same themes revolving round and round, but instead Schubert uses the same themes, but slightly in a different key, or maybe it's in a different octave, some stormy passages in there, The London Mozart Trio really sustain it well.
Here's the Beaux Arts Trio playing the Schubert Piano Trio on YouTube.
The London Mozart Trio are a bit of a mystery, the booklet doesn't have any information on the Trio, or any of its members, they recorded this disc in 1991, the IMP classics label was a really nice one, this one has a black & white shot of the Trio, the shadows and light are terrific, there's a certain glow to the highlights, the IMP logo on the right makes a wonderful dash of colour, and the lettering in the bottom left balances out the picture nicely, visually a great product.
Well it was the big first movement i enjoyed the most, and like lots of Schubert, it's music that keeps going round and round like a carousel, one of the things i notice is the Pianist can be quite loud at times, he likes to thump them keys at times, the recording is lovely, but sometimes it has difficulty capturing the sheer dynamic range of everything, after a general introduction, all three instruments take turns playing one of the main themes [1:58-2:24], cello / violin / piano, and four minutes later it comes back again [5:46-6:13], i almost expect there to be some sort of trio section in the middle to break up the almost 15 minutes of the same themes revolving round and round, but instead Schubert uses the same themes, but slightly in a different key, or maybe it's in a different octave, some stormy passages in there, The London Mozart Trio really sustain it well.
Here's the Beaux Arts Trio playing the Schubert Piano Trio on YouTube.
