Robert Plane, Gould Piano Trio, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Isotonic: Commissions for Clarinet by Burrell, Boden, Watkins & Jenkins (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:50 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Throughout his career, clarinettist Robert Plane has giventhe premiere performances of a number of works writtenespecially for him, and is renowned as a champion ofcontemporary music.* This album celebrates the results of the intense and verypersonal collaborations between Plane and the composersDiana Burrell, Huw Watkins, Mark David Boden and SarahFrances Jenkins.* Plane is joined by pianist Benjamin Frith, the Gould PianoTrio and the BBC Philharmonic under the direction ofconductor Geoffrey Paterson
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Gould Piano Trio – Schubert: Piano Trios, Volume 1 (2021)
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In their second album for Resonus, the Gould Piano Trio returns with a recording of Franz Schubert’s Piano Trios. Apart from a very early single movement written when he was fifteen years of age, Schubert came to the piano trio late in his short career and left only two full-length works in the form, written in 1827-1828. By the time Schubert came to write his Piano Trios, the form had taken on a new stature thanks to work from composers such as Beethoven. Here, Schubert’s Trio in B-flat Major and the Notturno in E-flat Major are joined by the delightful Valses nobles, D. 969, composed for solo piano and heard here in a world premiere recording in this arrangement for trio by Julius Zellner.
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Uwe Grodd & Gould Piano Trio – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (Arr. J. N. Hummel for Flute & Piano Trio) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:47 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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Beethoven and Hummel’s relationship was one of fractious beginnings, but ultimately true friendship. Between 1825 and 1835 Hummel arranged his contemporary’s Symphonies Nos. 1–7 and Septet, Op. 20 for his favoured combination of pianoforte, flute, violin and violoncello. Beethoven would surely not have objected—arrangements were, after all, a perfectly normal part of the 19th-century musical landscape. To audiences today his symphonies need little introduction but, thanks to the musical sensitivity and sheer brilliance of Hummel’s arrangements, it is possible to experience the thrill of hearing these extraordinary pieces afresh.
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