Heinrich Marschner - Piano Trios, Vol. 1 (Gould Piano Trio)

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Composer: Heinrich Marschner

• Piano Trio No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 29
• Piano Trio No. 7 in F Major, Op. 167

Gould Piano Trio

    Lucy Gould, violin

    Richard Lester, cello

    Benjamin Frith, piano

Date: 2024

Label: Naxos

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Heinrich Marschner’s role as Germany’s leading Romantic operatic composer in the generation between Weber and Wagner has tended to draw attention away from his accomplished chamber compositions. Marschner had a high regard for the piano trio genre, composing seven throughout his career, which won the admiration of his friends Robert and Clara Schumann. The Trio No. 1 in A minor is profusely lyrical and not without surprises and contrasts. Written three decades later, the Trio No. 7 in F major is a work of his maturity – assured, dramatic and energetic.

Marschner (1795-1861) began his musical career in Pressburg (now Bratislava), teaching in a noble family and serving as director of music in another before moving to Dresden, where his first opera was staged. He worked subsequently in Leipzig and finally in Hanover, where he died in 1861. The best known of Marschner’s 13 operas is Hans Heiling, based on the story of a marriage between an Earth Spirit and a mortal woman and first performed in Berlin in 1833.

The Gould Piano Trio has remained at the forefront of the international chamber music scene for over a quarter of a century. Launched by winning First Prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, it was European Concert Hall Organisation ‘Rising Stars’, making a highly successful and critically acclaimed debut at New York’s Weill Recital Hall. Its many appearances at London’s Wigmore Hall have included the complete piano trios of Dvořák, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Beethoven.

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