Favorite Piano Trios?

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Bulldog

#40
November 02, 2011, 01:45:47 PM
The Weinberg Piano Trio isn't shabby:

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snyprrr

#41
November 02, 2011, 08:07:18 PM
I thought there was a pretty good PT Thread around here?

Put me down for Bridge No.2.

Also Mozart, Schubert, Martinu...

Conor71

#42
November 03, 2011, 12:48:17 AM
Piano Trio's are my second favourite genre in Chamber Music after String Quartets - I am quite proud of my collection of PT's and have most of the major ones in complete sets such as Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Dvorak, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Mendelssohn and many others.
My favourites are Beethovens Ghost, Archduke and Gassenhauer and Shostakovich's 2. I am also very fond of Ravels :)

jwinter

#43
November 07, 2011, 07:19:03 AM
Thanks for all of the suggestions, folks!  There's definitely some fun exploring in my future, I guess starting amongst the French and Russians.   

Cheers!
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

BobsterLobster

#44
November 07, 2011, 10:30:03 AM
Not really a piano trio, but I thoroughly recommend this version of Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Trio:

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arranged for piano and orchestra.
The beginning of the 2nd movement played by the strings is one of the most beautiful things I've heard in a long time.

Brahmsian

#45
November 09, 2011, 10:30:01 AM
All of this talk of piano trios has made me decide to make November, for me, piano trio month.

I plan on listening to all of the piano trios I have in my collection.

I already have a head start, having listened to Schumann's and Schubert's piano trios.  Much, much more to go though!

Brahmsian

#46
November 10, 2011, 07:02:06 AM
Quote from: ChamberNut on November 09, 2011, 10:30:01 AM
All of this talk of piano trios has made me decide to make November, for me, piano trio month.

I plan on listening to all of the piano trios I have in my collection.

I already have a head start, having listened to Schumann's and Schubert's piano trios.  Much, much more to go though!

Listened to to date:

*Schumann's piano trios
*Brahms' piano trios
*Schubert's piano trios

Still to listen to from my collection:

*Most of Beethoven's Piano Trios
*Mendelssohn's
*Tchaikovsky's
*Rachmaninov's
*Taneyev's
*Haydn's (I have 4 piano trios)
*Dvorak's
*Mozart's
*Debussy's
*Ravel's
*Faure's

Odnoposoff

#47
November 10, 2011, 03:36:34 PM
Obscure and almost unknown piano trios: Theodor Kirchner's  transcriptions/arrangements of both Brahm's string sextets.

Brahmsian

#48
October 29, 2012, 03:34:47 PM
Last year, I did a "Piano Trio Month" marathon in November.

I'll do it again, and anyone that cares to join me, come along!  :)  This year, I'll extend it to "Trio month".  8)

Mirror Image

#49
October 29, 2012, 03:51:11 PM
Quote from: ChamberNut on October 29, 2012, 03:34:47 PM
Last year, I did a "Piano Trio Month" marathon in November.

I'll do it again, and anyone that cares to join me, come along!  :)  This year, I'll extend it to "Trio month".  8)

Besides the Shostakovich PTs, my favorite is Ravel. What an outstanding work.

Johnll

#50
October 29, 2012, 07:27:45 PM
Quote from: snyprrr on November 02, 2011, 08:07:18 PM
I thought there was a pretty good PT Thread around here?

Put me down for Bridge No.2.



The Bridge is really an interesting piece! Back to lurking.

Rhymenoceros

#51
August 24, 2013, 07:25:09 PM
I just listened to the little heard early piano trios of Dvorak, played by the Florestan Trio.  They are quite amazing!  After hearding their Mendelssohn trios as well, they are fast becoming by favorite trio.

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kyjo

#52
August 24, 2013, 07:53:35 PM
Ravel's is my very favorite. No contest. Ravel was such a master with contrasts of dark and light as well as subtle shadings.

jochanaan

#53
August 25, 2013, 02:25:57 PM
What?  I'm the first to mention Fanny Mendelssohn's impressive Opus 11?  A gorgeous trio, as fine as anything her brother wrote. 8)
Imagination + discipline = creativity

TheGSMoeller

#54
August 25, 2013, 04:36:50 PM
Haydn: Piano Trio no. 24 in D major
Faure: Piano Trio, Op. 120
Schubert: Piano Trio, Op. 100

kyjo

#55
November 24, 2017, 10:48:02 AM Last Edit: November 24, 2017, 10:50:11 AM by kyjo
Time to resurrect this thread. I love the piano trio repertoire, and aside from the "usual suspects" I've come across some most enjoyable lesser-known discoveries:

Raff 2 and 4 (charming and melodious)
Andreae 1 and 2 (1 has some of the best melodies you've never heard, 2 is more elusive and Fauré-like)
Babajanian (seductive exotic romance, the finale is thrilling)
Juon 1 (unique harmonies, very touching slow movement)
Herzogenberg 1 (dramatic and Brahmsian)
Arensky 1 (this has pretty much entered the standard rep by now, a wonderful piece anyway)
Foote 1 (Brahmsian, has the most inspiriting ending)
Franck 1 (should be as well known as the Piano Quintet, has a thrillingly ecstatic finale)
Lalo 3 (far superior to his much more famous concertos IMO, dark and dramatic)
Debussy (a lovely early work)
Roussel (same description as the Debussy)
Saint-Saëns 2 (surprised this isn't more well-known, has the most magical opening and beautiful slow movement)
Sviridov (a very successful "knockoff" of Shostakovich's 2nd Trio)
Sabaneyev (the darkest and most cataclysmic piano trio I know!)

I guess I should also include the Smetana, but mainly just for that superbly life-affirming section right before the end - I'm not the greatest admirer of the work as a whole.

What are other members' favorite lesser-known PTs? :)
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Florestan

#56
November 24, 2017, 11:36:00 AM Last Edit: November 24, 2017, 11:43:16 AM by Florestan
My top 5 in no particular order

Beethoven - Archduke
Schubert - D898
Brahms - Op. 8
Mozart - KV254 (yes, that one!)
Haydn - Hob XV:28

As for lesser-known, try the six trios for the unusual combo piano, violin and viola by Ignaz Lachner. If you like Schubert and Mendelssohn, you'll like these as well.



EDIT: the piano trio is hands down my favorite chamber music format featuring more than two voices.
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part." - Claude Debussy

kyjo

#57
November 24, 2017, 12:41:50 PM
Quote from: Florestan on November 24, 2017, 11:36:00 AM
My top 5 in no particular order

Beethoven - Archduke
Schubert - D898
Brahms - Op. 8
Mozart - KV254 (yes, that one!)
Haydn - Hob XV:28

As for lesser-known, try the six trios for the unusual combo piano, violin and viola by Ignaz Lachner. If you like Schubert and Mendelssohn, you'll like these as well.



EDIT: the piano trio is hands down my favorite chamber music format featuring more than two voices.

Thanks for the Lachner recommendation :) As for my top 5 piano trios, they would currently be (in no particular order):

Shostakovich 2
Tchaikovsky
Dvorak 3
Brahms 1
Ravel
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Holden

#58
November 24, 2017, 05:28:33 PM
No mention of Hummel yet? The BAT recording of some of his trios is one of my desert island discs.
Cheers

Holden
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