String Trios

[snyprrr]

just to get it started...

MOZART K563
BEETHOVEN
DVORAK
REGER (2)
TANEYEV (3?)

HINDEMITH (2)
MARTINU (3)
ROUSSEL
SCHOENBERG

WEBERN
KRENEK
PETRASSI
SCHNITTKE

XENAKIS
STOCKHAUSEN

RIHM
HARVEY
DUSAPIN

KODALY
DOHNANYI
FRAINCAIX

my brain hurts...please continue...

[sul G]

Gideon Klein

[Herman]

Well, you forgot the best one:

Mozart's K 563

[The new erato]

Taneyev

[Symphonien]

Schnittke

[sul G]

Schnittke

Absolutely! For some reason I assumed that must have been on the original list.

FWIW string trio is possibly the chamber grouping for which I feel the strongest personal attraction. Not that this means anything.

[ChamberNut]

Absolutely! For some reason I assumed that must have been on the original list.

FWIW string trio is possibly the chamber grouping for which I feel the strongest personal attraction. Not that this means anything.

A great medium, that unfortunately doesn't have nearly as much of a repertoire as the string quartet and piano trios.

[val]

Schönberg's Trio opus 45 is sublime. One of his most deep and touching works.

[Josquin des Prez]

Well, you forgot the best one:

Mozart's K 563

This. Webern as a close second.

[Gabriel]

Krommer. After Mozart's, my favourite in classicism.

[snyprrr]

I'd been away for a while.
thank you all for the input. i wish i could go back and add the couple of obvious misses before continuing. anyhow...

i'll have to dig up the Mozart.

obviously the schnittke, and may i add a great serial trio by Denisov (1971).
can't remember if i put the Krenek there.

i think a lot of the current crop of modernists (Lachenmann, et al) have a trio lurking in their early sixties works.

also, the hour long trio based on the sounds of high tension wires by LaMonte Young (1961?).

but i have to put the trio by Schoenberg at the top.  i think it's his most perfect creation- method+total passionate expression- i have the version by kremerata on dg, and the playing is just...ahhh!!! i can't say enough about this once piece (and i DO have probs with arney!)

and the Webern trio comes right before he "solidified" his method, hence this trio has a unique phantasm about it...post 6 bagatelles...this is where boulez chose to go when he was writing his quartet in the late 40s, not the more rigorously sounding quartet op.28.

i would like to lift up the two Hindemith trios as meaty, big and serious early 20th cent. answers.....along with Roussel's thorny neo-classical work.

and i HAVE to give props to Xenakis/Ikhoor from his classic 70s period, and Rihm's Music for Three Strings (1977) is 50min. of wrentching tension and propulsion...Rihm wrote great stuff in the late 70s.

it DOES appear as though we have covered the "classics"...there don't seem to be that many...but there are a lot of tiny suites and stuff hidden in many 20th cent. composer's worklists. "someone"? once said that to get to the heart of strings (speaking about quartets i believe), you have to compose a trio. and didn't Beethoven write trios in prep. for op.18?

i agree with everyone who has expressed the string trio as perhaps thee sublime combination, taking the quartet further into itself and for some (schoenberg), truly showing us the deepest realms within us.

if anyone agrees with me on the kremerata recording, it truly seems to me that these three strings are doing so much more than playing. harrowing!! yes, truly schoenberg wins one for the gipper.

[ChamberNut]

Any recommended recordings for Mozart's String Trio in E flat, K.563?  Andy?

[SonicMan46]

Well, just wanted to get onto this thread for future recommendations - will suggest a composer already mentioned & one w/ a 3-CD offering that is quite enjoyable:

Giardini, Felice (1716-1796) - String Trios w/ the Budapest String Trio - quite enjoyable!

Beethoven, Ludwig van - String Trios w/ Zurich String Trio on Brilliant - 

 

[ChamberNut]

Beethoven, Ludwig van - String Trios w/ Zurich String Trio on Brilliant - 

Love this set, Dave! 

[snyprrr]

Has anyone heard Taneyev's 3rd trio, his last work, I believe? Is it a masterpiece?

[Valentino]

Any recommended recordings for Mozart's String Trio in E flat, K.563?  Andy?

Ditto.

I have the l'Archibudelli recording, and that's the only one I've heard. If there is another I must hear I'm all ears, of course.

[Daverz]

Bah, they're just string quartets trying to cut costs.

[DFO]

Has anyone heard Taneyev's 3rd trio, his last work, I believe? Is it a masterpiece?

String trio E flat major op.31. I've it by the Jerusalem ST. And yes, it's a masterpiece.

[SonicMan46]

Bah, they're just string quartets trying to cut costs.

Dave - yeh, the 4th guy got drunk and could'nt have showed up! 

[FideLeo]

Dave - yeh, the 4th guy got drunk and could'nt have showed up! 

The cellist got drunk and they will have to cancel the concert.