Composer: Maurice Ravel, Bedrich Smetana, Huw Watkins
Performer: Antje Weithaas, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Huw Watkins, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt, Sebastian Manz
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Avi Music
Catalogue: AVI8553260
Release: 2012
Size: 262 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15
01. I. Moderato Assai
02. II. Allegro Ma Non Agitato
03. III. Finale. Presto
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
04. I. Modéré
05. II. Pantoum. Assez Vif
06. III. Passacaille. Très Large
07. IV. Final. Animé
Watkins: Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano
08. Speak Seven Seas
these performances from the 2011 [Spannungen] festival feature a mixing and matching of personnel, with inspiration generally running high in these three trios captured on three successive days….It is only with Ravel’s Piano Trio that things become a little workaday…Nonetheless, the Smetana and Watkins are certainly worth the price of the disc.
Huw Watkins is a remarkably gifted pianist as well as a composer, as he amply demonstrates in Smetana’s G minor Trio…The flexibility of Antje Weithaas’s violin-playing is a predictable pleasure and the young cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker proves every bit her equal…The playing [of Watkins’s Speak Seven Seas] is superb, the applause hugely enthusiastic.