Farrenc - Piano Trios, Cello Sonata
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96352
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 27th October 2023
Contents
Works
Cello Sonata in B flat major, op.46Piano Trio no.1 in E flat major, op.33
Piano Trio no.2 in D minor, op.34
Artists
Sergey Galaktionov (violin)Amedeo Cicchese (cello)
Linda Di Carlo (piano)
Works
Cello Sonata in B flat major, op.46Piano Trio no.1 in E flat major, op.33
Piano Trio no.2 in D minor, op.34
Artists
Sergey Galaktionov (violin)Amedeo Cicchese (cello)
Linda Di Carlo (piano)
About
Born Jeanne-Louise Dumont in Paris in 1804, the family history of this gifted woman is a geneticist's dream. Her father, court sculptor and one-time pensionnaire of the French Academy at Rome represents the fourth generation of a dynasty of master craftsmen continuously associated with the rulers of France since Louis X. Louise's brother Auguste, three years her senior, became the fifth and last generation in a line of Dumont sculptors.
Louise’s own special gifts in the realm of music became apparent very early, and she began training in piano and theory at the age of six. Still in her formative years, she had instruction from Moscheles and Hummel, both pupils of Beethoven, but she made a conscious decision at the age of 15 to seek out a more rigorous course of instruction from the Czech composer Reicha, who was (happily for posterity) a professor at the Paris Conservatoire. Two years later, at 17, she married Aristide Farrenc, another scion of a well-to-do family, but after a period of travelling Louise resumed her studies with Reicha while awaiting the birth of her first child.
Robert Schumann lavished praise on Farrenc’s early published work, and it is easy to hear why from these two Piano Trios and Cello Sonata, all of which belong to the mainstream of lyrical Romanticism in its early flowering. Farrenc’s own gifts as a pianist are always in evidence from the intricate nature of her writing for her instrument, but her understanding of the two string instruments, and the tricky balancing between them and the greater volume of the piano, is achieved with unobtrusive mastery in the trios. The slow movement of the Cello Sonata is a gentle, shy song which should delight every new listener to it.
The pianist Linda di Carlo has already been the constant presence in two previous albums of Farrenc’s chamber music on Brilliant Classics, and she brings a deep understanding and experience of the idiom to these new recordings. Of the piano-and-wind music (95319), Fanfare’s reviewer concluded: ‘Performance and recording are top-notch. Buy and enjoy.’ For the violin sonatas (95922): ‘Daniele Orlando… plays with simply gorgeous tone throughout… Linda Di Carlo … handles her parts expertly, managing never to overwhelm Orlando, and that makes for an outstanding duo partnership. Urgently recommended.’
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