Composer: Johannes Brahms, Alexander von Zemlinsky
Performer: Feininger Trio
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Avi
Release: 2021
Size: 491 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101
01. I. Allegro energico
02. II. Presto non assai
03. III. Andante grazioso
04. IV. Allegro molto
Zemlinsky: Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 3
05. I. Allegro ma non troppo
06. II. Andante – Pocco mosso con fantasia
07. III. Allegro
The Feininger Trio, members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, present the first in a new series of albums pairing each of the three piano trios written by Brahms with a work by another Viennese composer: Alexander Zemlinsky, Ernst Krenek, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, respectively. Brahms’s piano trios are among the genre’s crowning achievements, and the Feininger Trio were interested in exploring how the piano trio genre developed in the master’s wake. As Alexander Zemlinsky put it, young composers attempted to outdo one another by writing in a vein as Brahmsian as possible. Young Zemlinsky knew Brahms and enjoyed the older composer’s support. He was not Brahms’s pupil, but his early Piano Trio, Op. 3 has much in common with Brahms.