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Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2, Cello Sonata

by Guarneri Trio Prague

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The Trio No. 1 for violin, cello and piano is a youthful work, composed in 1923 while Shostakovich was finishing his studies at the Conservatory of Saint Petersburg. Its premiere took place in 1925 and received a rather cold reception. The last 22 bars of the work were lost, and completed when edited by the pianist and composer Boris Tishchenko, pupil and friend of Shostakovich. All in one piece, still borrowing a certain romanticism and a very rhapsodic atmosphere, it is nevertheless a piece of astonishing density. The second Trio, written in 1944 (twenty years after the first), takes up a traditional Jewish musical theme in the last movement, a theme also present in his famous 8th String Quartet, and of course inspired by the horrors and persecutions of the Second World War. This Trio No. 2 will quickly become a major work in the repertoire. Between the two, the Sonata for cello and piano in D minor was composed in 1934 in Moscow when Shostakovich received all the honours of the USSR, before the Soviet authorities censored his music deemed too bourgeois and decadent. His only Cello Sonata will, however, very often be reworked by the composer until his death; the last edition dating from 1987, 12 years after his death.

Awards: Choc by Le Monde de la Musique, 5 by Diapason

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released September 1, 2001

Guarneri Trio Prague (Ensemble)
Čeněk Pavlík (Violin)
Ivan Klánský (Piano)
Marek Jerie (Cello)

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