
Haydn, Pawollek & Smetana: Chamber Works
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1/7Compositional Technique
Roman Pawollek's Piano Trio (2006) features never-before-heard mixed sounds, with overtones wandering in its two-dimensional soundscape.
Recording & Production
This album is a co-production with the Deutscher Musikrat (German Music Council) and Deutschlandradio, recorded in Frankfurt, Germany.
Performer Biography
Trio E.T.A. won the German Music Competition, the special prize of the Rotary Club Bonn, and the prize of the Friends of Young Musicians Germany in 2021.
Performer Biography
The idea to form Trio E.T.A. came from the ensemble's violinist, Elene Meipariani, whose parents also played in a piano trio.
Performer Biography
Trio E.T.A. is named after Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, a poet-musician, similar to how Johannes Brahms named his Piano Trio No. 1.
Composition History
Joseph Haydn's Trio in C major, Hob.XV:27, was written in 1796/97 for his friend Teresa Jansen, a celebrated pianist and Clementi pupil in London.
Composition History
Bedřich Smetana's only Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15, was written in 1855-56 as a eulogy for his daughter Bedriška, who died at the age of four.




















