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Atos Trio: The French Album | Farao B108073

Atos Trio: The French Album

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Label: Farao

Cat No: B108073

Barcode: 4025438080734

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 2nd September 2013

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"French music. Straightaway, there are stereotypes that come to mind: one thinks of airy sprinklings of luscious sound, elegant but anaemic. But Cécile Chaminade‘s Trio No.2 already ignores these prejudices. This music is hot blooded, passionate, with a full-fisted, juicy piano part that even a Brahms would have taken a delight in. The Lento is one of my favourites – a fairy tale from One Thousand and One Nights, inspired, absolutely wonderful! How different the piano trio by Françaix is! How mordant and ironic, what fun it has with the 5/8 time signature and with its high-spirited cacophony; but it always remains charming, with the kind of elegance we might associate with a smoke-filled café in the fifties.

Debussy‘s early work also sounds unexpected. Sometimes gentle and friendly, but also effusive on occasion, it often reminds us of his great models at the time he was writing it: R Schumann (4th movement!) and C Saint-Saens (what a beautiful swan we encounter in the cello solo at the start of the Andante...). Finally, L Boulanger‘s short work about a spring morning is full of imagination and persuasive power and shines with expressive intent and brilliance. These are all wonderfully different works that the realm of chamber music has given us here – rich in colours, glowing in expression, sometimes caustic, ironic and trenchant, always human and written from the bottom of the heart.“ - Thomas Hoppe

The Atos Trio (Annette - T(h)omas - Stefan) was founded in 2003. It has now become one of the very few German chamber-music ensembles to have made its way into major concert series worldwide. Its aim is to go to the very limits of expression and dynamics, without shying from extremes. Outstanding characteristics of the ensemble are its warm, homogeneous trio sound, its variety of approaches depending on the style and epoch of the music being played, and above all the artistic communication between the players and their complete dedication to the music. For the musicians in the trio, playing in the ensemble has complete priority over any other musical activities.

Atos Trio:
- Annette von Hehn, violin
- Stefan Heinemeyer, cello
- Thomas Hoppe, piano

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