Three of the six works for piano trio achieved by Mozart between 1776 and 1788. The genre was in full expansion in Vienna owing to the growing vogue of the pianoforte, which was occurring in middle-class as well as aristocratic drawing rooms. Mozart nudged the simple ‘Sonata with accompaniment’ into oblivion, proposing a new balance, especially in the pre-romantic Trio in B flat announcing the op.70 of Beethoven, achieved eighteen years later.

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Three of the six works for piano trio achieved by Mozart between 1776 and 1788. The genre was in full expansion in Vienna owing to the growing vogue of the pianoforte, which was occurring in middle-class as well as aristocratic drawing rooms. Mozart nudged the simple ‘Sonata with accompaniment’ into oblivion, proposing a new balance, especially in the pre-romantic Trio in B flat announcing the op.70 of Beethoven, achieved eighteen years later.

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The JANÁČEK TRIO, simple homonymy of the pianist’s name with a famous patronymic, pays homage to Alfred Schnittke on the 10th anniversary of his death. The programme includes the Trio, which has become part of the international repertoire in its original version for strings since its premiere during the Alban Berg centenary, and virtuoso pieces showing off each of the members of this young Czech ensemble revealed at MIDEM 2008. Hommage rendu à Alfred Schnittke, pour le 10e anniversaire de sa disparition, par le Trio JANÁČEK, simple homonymie du nom de la pianiste avec un patronyme célèbre. Sont rassemblés le Trio figurant au répertoire international dans sa version originale pour cordes seules depuis sa création lors du centenaire d’Alban Berg, et des pièces virtuoses mettant en valeur et au défi chacun des membres de ce jeune ensemble tchèque révélé au MIDEM 2008.

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These ‘twin brothers’ from the final period offer two portraits of the composer of Winterreise; one is meant to be radiant and convivial, the other is that of the solitary walker, wandering amidst his memories, sometimes those of Schubertiads, where he was the driving force, accompanying singers or musicians in timeless evenings of friendship.

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Four examples of Bohemian Expressionism: Romantic with the tombeau ‘to the memory of an angel’ that Smetana erected to his daughter Bedřiska, and the two pieces that Suk wrote under the influence of Schumann and Dvořák, his father-in-law; and modern with the premiere of the Trio 1978 by the late Luboš Fišer, tormented composer, too soon forgotten, of the 15 Prints on Dürer’s Apocalypse (1965).

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Written between 1874 and 1891 by the composers of the symphony ‘Of the new World’, the four piano trios completed follow the stylistic evolution of a musician who wanted to be “Czech” while assimilating the models offered by Beethoven and Brahms as we can see in Op. 21 and 26. The trio op.65 reaches the quality of his models and invents his own way in the continuation of musical sonnets of the six Dumky, preludes to future masterworks (op.107 and 110). The Guarneri Trio Prague is for more than twenty years the heir to this Slavic tradition. They fully return the exuberance and the nostalgia of these deeply human pages.

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