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Loewe - Grand Trio, Duo espagnola, Schottische Bilder | CPO 5552562

Loewe - Grand Trio, Duo espagnola, Schottische Bilder

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 5552562

Barcode: 0761203525621

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 3rd May 2019

Contents

Artists

Lucius Henning (piano)
Marietta Kratz (violin)
Lena Eckels (viola)
Jakob Christoph Kuchenbuch (cello)
Christian Seibold (clarinet)

Works

Loewe, Carl

Duo espagnola for viola and piano
Grand Trio, op.12
Schottische Bilder (Scottish Pictures) for clarinet and piano, op.112

Artists

Lucius Henning (piano)
Marietta Kratz (violin)
Lena Eckels (viola)
Jakob Christoph Kuchenbuch (cello)
Christian Seibold (clarinet)

About

Our gigantic edition of Carl Loewe’s complete song and ballad oeuvre proved to be a great success and revealed a genuine cosmos of great dramatic works and enthralling genre miniatures (21 CDs: 6813681; cpo 7773552). However, it is known only to a few that Loewe not only composed some six hundred songs and ballads but also produced chamber music. In 1831 the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung described his Piano Trio or Grand Trio op.12 as “magnificent, finely invented, sustained, and intelligently developed”. Robert Schumann expressed himself in a similar vein: “It is perhaps one of the most fundamentally genuine and most imaginative works by Loewe, one of those worthiest of the best master. Every trio circle must have it.” In his last instrumental work, the Duo Espagnôla for viola and piano, the composer once again ventured onto national terrain and took with him the viola as a special expressive means conveying the Spanish character. The work is melodious throughout and shows both instruments in their best light. The Scottish Pictures for clarinet and piano from Loewe’s late period are demanding genre scenes inspired by the composer’s interest in the Scottish landscape and the country’s vicissitudinous history. At the time enthusiasm for the wild north of the British Isles was very fashionable.

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