Channel Classics's video: Hamlet Piano Trio recording: Schubert s Notturno Opus 100 - Thompson Giacometti Jankovic 41719

Take A look at our website: https://channelclassics.com/ (41719) Franz Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 , Op. 100 and 'Notturno' are performed on this third album of the Hamlet Piano Trio for Channel Classics. To be released: November 8th 2019 DSD Download is available now: https://www.nativedsd.com/albums/41719-schubert-piano-trio-no-2-and-notturno Some of Franz Schubert’s music – like the Trout Quintet or the Ave Maria – is heard time and again, while other pieces are hardly ever played. Even when the focus is on his chamber music, these extremes are evident. Of all fifteen string quartets, Death and the Maiden is played most, while others are true Cinderellas. The wonderful String Quintet in C major is played fairly frequently, and the two Piano Trios a little less. The present recording features a great rarity, the Notturno in E flat major opus post.148 D897 for violin, cello and piano. Like much other chamber music, this piece was probably first played among Schubert’s friends, or in his home, with the composer at the piano, his brother Ignaz or Ferdinand on the violin and father Schubert on the cello. Among the Schubert family the piece was known as the Adagio in E flat major. The publisher Diabelli fished it out of the composer’s estate in 1844 and issued it under the fantasy name Notturno. Today we know that it was written as second movement for the Piano Trio in E flat major opus 100, but then rejected by the composer himself. In its melodies and modulations Schubert’s pioneering style in the nineteenth century is clearly recognisable. - Clemens Romijn (excerpt from liner notes) Since my adolescence Franz Schubert’s Piano Trios have been between my absolutely favorite pieces of music. In my teens I was listening very much to chamber music recordings with cellist Pablo Casals from his festival in Prades or earlier with his piano trio. Schubert Trios are specially moving because of the intimate conversations between the three instruments which touch such profound feelings like deep solitude, love, happiness, fear, mystery of death and many others. And then on the other side the symphonic dimension with the richness of tunes, characters and moods as well as the impressive duration of more than 45 minutes. Schubert’s written dynamics in the E flat major trio are also extreme, reaching triple pianissimo and triple fortissimo. It was fascinating for us as a piano trio to explore these different dimensions, characters, sound colors, dynamics, moods, atmospheres. As the Hamlet Trio we have performed this piece many times on modern instruments. But from the first moment a few years ago when we sat down to play it on the instrument of Schubert’s time at Edwins Beunk’s studio, with gut strings on our instruments and using classical bows, I could not wait to work more intensively together on the period instruments and make this recording in this wonderful atmosphere together with Jared Sacks, our recording producer. - Xenia Jankovic, cello Social Media: Visit our Facebook page: http://facebook.com/channelclassics Visit our Twitter page: http://twitter.com/channelclassics Visit our Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/channelclassics