Enescu: Piano Trio, Piano Quintet & Aria and Scherzino
9/3/2015, 9 Tracks, 1:00:09
Featuring
Remus Azoitei
Alexandra Wood
Douglas Paterson
Jane Salmon
William Howard
Simon Blendis
Peter Buckoke
Schubert Ensemble
George Enescu
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Composer's Artistic Vision
Enescu, like Sibelius, found a middle path between symmetrical, architectonic compositional styles (like Bruckner) and asymmetrical, evolutionary ones (like Debussy), building architectural outlines with rhapsodic, evolving material.
Composition History
The Piano Trio in A minor was largely completed by Enescu in 1916, but he made no mention of it, and the score was lost until its discovery in 1965.
Composition History
The Aria and Scherzino were likely composed around 1908 for a competition of luthiers (violin makers), with the Aria showcasing singing qualities and the Scherzino demonstrating virtuosity.
Composition History
The Piano Quintet, Op. 29, like the Piano Trio, was unknown during Enescu's lifetime and he never heard it; its manuscript was discovered and first performed only in the 1960s.
Performer Biography
Remus Azoitei, the Romanian-born violinist on this recording, was appointed the youngest ever violin professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London, in 2001.
Performer Biography
The Schubert Ensemble, founded in 1983, is a leading chamber music group for piano and strings, giving over fifty concerts a year and having visited more than forty countries.
Composer Biography
George Enescu, a Romanian composer, wrote only 33 works with opus numbers, but composed a much larger quantity of orchestral, choral, piano, and chamber music.
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