Dohnanyi / Penderecki / Fine / Beethoven: String Trios

Featuring

Andrés Cárdenes
Roberto Díaz
Andrés Díaz
Díaz Trio
Ernö Dohnányi
Krzysztof Penderecki

Irving Fine
Ludwig van Beethoven

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Critical Reception

Beethoven's String Trios, Op. 9, were not published until 1846/1847 and received negative reception due to their complexity and the unorthodox treatment of the second movement, which Viennese audiences were unprepared for.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded and mastered by George Blood, with Brian Destremps as Assistant Engineer, from August 7-10, 2002, at Field Concert Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA.

Compositional Technique

Krzysztof Penderecki's String Trio belongs to the stylistic area of his fourth opera, Ubu Roi, which introduced a new clarity of sometimes almost neoclassic character.

Composition History

Beethoven's Three String Trios, Opus 9, were composed over many years and had insufficient support at the time due to their complexity and the unfashionable nature of trios as a form.

Composition History

Dohnányi's Serenade for string trio was written when he was 25, while on tour in London and Vienna, and premiered in 1905.

Composer Biography

Ernst von Dohnányi, a Hungarian contemporary of Martinu, Bartók, and Korngold, was considered the most exemplary piano virtuoso since Liszt.

Performer Biography

The Díaz Trio, one of the few professional string trios in existence, performed at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in 1993 at the invitation of Isaac Stern to celebrate Carnegie Hall's next one hundred years of music-making.