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Piano trios from the 1920s<\/p>\n
Two of the most central figures in Swiss music, Ernest Bloch and Frank Martin, were born within a span of ten years in the same city, Geneva. The distinctive sobriety of that town \u2013 it fostered a more famous son, Calvin \u2013 reverberates equally in the art of two musicians who emerged from quite different backgrounds; Bloch from the synagogue and Martin from a strict Calvinist congregation led by his father. Interestingly, three of the works recorded here were all written within roughly a year of each other in the 1920s. Three very different composers \u2013 Dmitri Shostakovich was at the time an unknown stripling \u2013 applied themselves concurrently to the same strictures of a venerable old form, the piano trio. In the case of Shostakovich, the form would be returned to. For Bloch and Martin a first excursion would be the last. <\/p>\n
On this album, the well-established and internationally recognized group The Grieg Trio performs these composer\u2019s trios. After a range of successful album the group yet again displays their exceptional musical strengths, either in Bloch\u2019s \u201cThree Nocturnes\u201d with its unmistakably Jewish elements characteristic of the composer\u2019s work in general, or in Martin\u2019s deliciously light and transparent \u201cTrio on Irish Folktunes\u201d. Not to mention their interpretations of the two piano trios by Shostakovich \u2013 the c minor and e minor \u2013 which undoubtedly will leave any listener baffled.<\/p>\n
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