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Viennese Neo-Impressionism...

Sébastien Melmoth | Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS | 12/09/2007

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Nice disc on the soncially excellent MD&G label pairs Neo-Impressionstic Klimt cover-art--(Approaching Storm, c.1905)--with Viennese Art Nouveau chamber works.



Mahler's only surviving chamber work, the very early Piano Quartet of 1876 (a-minor [?]) is prescient in adumbrations of later Mahlerian characteristics.



Associate of Brahms, Mahler, and Schönberg, Zemlinsky turned out his clarinet Trio (d-minor, Op. 3, 1895) with Brahms' assistance (cf. Brahms' clarinet Trio Op. 114). As is frequently the case, violin substitutes for clarinet: the piano Trio version is featured here.



Schönberg's erotic Jugenstil sextet Verklärte Nacht (d-minor, Op. 4, 1899) is also presented here in an unusual transcription for piano Trio by Eduard Steuermann (1932), which offers interesting insights into the original.



The marginally brisk readings given here by the Vienna Piano Trio suggest a telos-focused vision. TT:60mins.



See also:

Ax, Stoltzman, Ma : Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart : Trios for Piano, Clarinet, Cello

Webern/Schoenberg/Berg/Mahler:

Brahms: Trio in Am; Zemlinsky: Trio in Dm

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