Beethoven in seiner Zeit - Ferdinand Ries Piano Trios Trio Egmont

• Ferdinand Ries (1784 - 1838): Piano Trio in C Minor, op. 143:
• 1 Ries: Piano Trio in C Minor, op. 143: I. Allegro con brio 11:34
• 2 Ries: Piano Trio in C Minor, op. 143: II. Adagio con espressione 04:43
• 3 Ries: Piano Trio in C Minor, op. 143: III. Finale: Prestissimo 08:22
• Piano Trio in F Minor, WoO 86:
• 4 Ries: Piano Trio in F Minor, WoO 86: I. Allegro energico 10:52
• 5 Ries: Piano Trio in F Minor, WoO 86: II. Adagio 06:39
• 6 Ries: Piano Trio in F Minor, WoO 86: III. Polacca: Moderato - Trio - Polacca 07:38
• 7 Ries: Piano Trio in F Minor, WoO 86: IV. Finale: Allegro molto 06:54
• Total Runtime 56:42

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Ferdinand Ries occupies a remarkable place in the history of music. He was famously a friend and pupil of Beethoven and a virtuoso pianist. His extensive oeuvre opened up the musical aesthetics of Viennese Classicism to Romanticism. Completed in 1826, the Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 143 features two lively, fast movements surrounding a poetic Adagio, reminiscent of the era’s finest opera arias. Very different is the Grand Trio in F minor, WoO 86. It features four thematically interwoven movements that traverse emotions from despair to passion and eventual peace.

Trio Egmont

Trio Egmont
Founded in the fall of 2019 by musicians from Berlin and Leipzig, Trio Egmont combines historical awareness with radical freedom and a delicate sense of sound, while demonstrating an explosive joy in making music. In the summer of 2021, the trio won first prize and the Ries Special Prize at the first international "Beethoven in His Time" competition for chamber music on historical instruments. The prize also includes a new collaboration with the NAXOS label.

The jury's comment for the 2021 "Beethoven in His Time" competition: "They tackle the most difficult challenges with breathtaking ease. Standard categories such as technical ability, stylistic understanding, phrasing, and expression – all at the highest level. But above all, it was their virtuoso creativity that impressed the jury. Their exuberant joy of experimentation develops a seductive pull and entices even the music to dream. If one is forced to limit oneself to just one point, it is their ability to make every single bar exciting, thrilling, and unexpected for the listener."

Gilad Katznelson on the fortepiano, with his inspiration from studies in Basel and Frankfurt, among other places, and from old recordings from the childhood of the tape recorder, contributes particularly to the ensemble's free sense of tempo and plasticity. His natural feeling for the nature of the fortepiano invites his fellow players and the audience to dream, far from the hectic present of everyday life.

Violinist Luiza Labouriau is characterized by beauty of sound, freedom of interplay, and imagination in expression. With her high energy, unusual emotional depth, and unique stage presence, she continually strives to reinvent the boundaries of music and convey musical narratives and feelings in a fresh way.

Virtuoso cellist Martin Knörzer connects the trio's players with his unique sense of musical communication, interplay, and balance within the ensemble. Through many years as a chamber musician, Martin has developed a special sensitivity for harmonic contexts and the rhetorical and linguistic dimensions of music. Martin Knörzer also regularly performs on modern and historical keyboard instruments.

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