Robert Radecke: Piano Trios
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.777996-2

By Trio Fontane. By Robert Radecke. Country of Origin: Germany. Classical. Listening CD. Published by CPO (NX.777996-2).

UPC: 761203799626.

Following our successful first release featuring symphonic works by Robert Radecke, the Swiss Trio Fontane ensemble now turns to chamber music by this composer. Radecke took up residence in Berlin in 1853 and significantly influenced the city's music culture through to the turn of the century. He initially performed in public as a chamber musician as the second violinist in Ferdinand Laub's quartet and as a pianist who created a sensation with his renderings of Beethoven's last sonatas. His mastery as an instrumentalist is reflected especially in the brilliant piano part of the Trio in B minor, which not coincidentally is dedicated to Anton Rubinstein. Radecke composed the first movement quite likely while he was still in Leipzig (1853) and added the cantabile adagio two years later. However, it was not until 1868 that he supplied a scherzo and a finale to complete the work for publication as his op. 33 by Bote & Bock of Berlin. This work and Radecke's two piano trios, about whose circumstances of composition and reception hardly anything is known, are being presented in recording premieres on this release. Along with the Fantasy Pieces op. 7, this means that almost all of the composer's published chamber compositions, that is, three of his total of four such works of this genre, have now been recorded. This beautiful romantic music displays Radecke's independent talent coupled with consummate compositional artistry and a fine feel for formal perfection.

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