COMPOSERS: Pfitzner
LABELS: CPO
WORKS: Piano Trio in F Op. 8; Piano Trio in B flat
PERFORMER: Robert Schumann Trio
CATALOGUE NO: 999 736-2
Pfitzner’s ambitious, overheated Op. 8 Trio (1896) is given an appropriately self-important performance. The youthful B flat work (1886), long lost and only reconstructed in 1982, plainly lacks its finale but turns out to be an unexpectedly diverting essay in neo-Mozartian opera-buffa style. Calum MacDonald
Pfitzner: Piano Trio in F Op. 8; Piano Trio in B flat
Pfitzner’s ambitious, overheated Op. 8 Trio (1896) is given an appropriately self-important performance. The youthful B flat work (1886), long lost and only reconstructed in 1982, plainly lacks its finale but turns out to be an unexpectedly diverting essay in neo-Mozartian opera-buffa style. Calum MacDonald
Our rating
4
Published: January 20, 2012 at 1:19 pm