Composer: Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Busch Trio
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA632
Release: 2020
Size: 1.09 GB
Recovery: +3%
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Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major, D929
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante con moto
03. III. Scherzando. Allegro moderato
04. IV. Allegro moderato
05. Piano Trio movement in B flat major, D28
06. Notturno in E flat major for piano trio, D897 (Op. post.148)
After its recording of Dvořák’s complete chamber music with piano, the Busch Trio now tackles three works by Franz Schubert, including his famous Piano Trio No. 2. While the dying composer dedicated this masterpiece ‘to nobody, save those who find pleasure in it’, as if urging them to enjoy the life that was gradually ebbing away from him, his Notturno, D. 897 expresses an anguish and a sense of tragedy that makes it one of the most eloquent examples of Romantic lyricism.
Schubert’s early period is represented by his very first piece for piano and strings, the single-movement Sonatensatz D. 28, which he composed at the age of fifteen. Written following the youthful Schubert’s expulsion from the Imperial Choir School in Vienna after his voice broke (he lost his mother the same year), this piece, still heavily influenced by Classicism, offers a troubling counterpoint to the works of his Romantic maturity, which reflect both the joy of creation and the suffering wrought by illness.