Trio Lirico & Detlev Eisinger – Reger: Complete String Trios & Piano Quartet in A Minor, Op. 133 (2017) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Trio Lirico & Detlev Eisinger – Reger: Complete String Trios & Piano Quartet in A Minor, Op. 133 (2017)
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The violinist Franziska Pietsch and her Trio Lirico present their debut album on audite.

In between the poles of preserving tradition and striving towards fin de siècle modernism, Max Reger composed three works between 1904 and 1914/15 featuring a particular sense of clarity which the composer associated with Mozart. Even at their premieres, the two String Trios and the late Piano Quartet each caused a sensation, not least as their compositional complexity, for which Reger was (in)famous, mostly runs underneath the surface, creating an easier listening experience. These tuneful and harmonically rich works which, at times, enter into direct dialogue with works of the past, are rarely heard, even though they represent important cornerstones of their respective genres.

The Trio Lirico was founded in 2014 and soon established itself on the concert scene. The ensemble’s varied repertoire ranges from classicism through to contemporary music. The three performers are brought together by their passion for chamber music; in addition, all three also enjoy solo careers. It is this soloistic influence within a chamber music formation that constitutes the trademark of the ensemble: the chamber music dialogue is conducted with soloistic passion without neglecting the ensemble’s homogeneity. The result is a unique combination of enthusiastic and spirited music-making and attractive suspense. The Munich-based pianist Detlev Eisinger joins the ensemble for the Piano Quartet.

Poor Reger! With his pudgy figure and his pouty face, appearances have taken precedence over his music which many consider as pudgy and pouty. Which it is not. Yes, Reger was a firm supporter of absolute music, following the tradition of Beethoven and Brahms whose classical structures he combined with Wagner’s extended harmonies, adding Bach’s counterpoint; some of his works seem dense and complicated. But this is not the case with his chamber music – by the bye, chamber music makes up the biggest part of Reger’s œuvre – which reflects a condensed version of his stylistic development. And in contrast to his almost symphonic string quartets, the String Trios Opp 77b and 141b seem less symbolist-expressive than historistic-classicist. The confident, at times even cheerful (not pudgy and not pouty), character of these works convey the (superficial) impression of simplicity, despite which Reger remained true to his own style, as he explained in a letter where he described the composition as “absolutely not ‘un-Regerian’”. However, the characteristics of this “Regerian” style – dense modulations, surprising metric asymmetries and interesting part writing – are in this case subordinate to the small number of instruments and do not immediately emerge. The composer strove towards a “new simplicity”; in 1904 he wrote: “I know exactly what our music today lacks: a Mozart!” Surely it was also Mozart’s spirit which inspired Reger when he wrote his “miniature chamber music” String Trio Op. 141b in 1915. The same year, the premiere of his Piano Quartet Op. 133 was emphatically celebrated by the critics who praised its “glorious sonorities” and its “vocal, vivid and catchy” melodies. The Op. 77b, String Trio was obviously inspired by Mozart’s Divertimento K563, and the Op. 9 String Trios by Beethoven – as has often been commented upon, Reger frequently enters into an intensive dialogue with historic works of music. Star violinist Franziska Pietsch is joined, in her ensemble Trio Lirico, by a brilliant roster of colleagues, who give life to these highly deserving but neglected works.

Tracklist:
1. Trio Lirico, Franziska Pietsch, Sophia Reuter & Johannes Krebs – String Trio in D Minor, Op. 141b: I. Allegro (09:06)
2. Trio Lirico, Franziska Pietsch, Sophia Reuter & Johannes Krebs – String Trio in D Minor, Op. 141b: II. Andante molto sostenuto con variazioni (09:47)
3. Trio Lirico, Franziska Pietsch, Sophia Reuter & Johannes Krebs – String Trio in D Minor, Op. 141b: III. Vivace (03:39)
4. Trio Lirico, Franziska Pietsch, Sophia Reuter & Johannes Krebs – String Trio in a Minor, Op. 77b: I. Sostenuto – Allegro agitato – Meno mosso (08:08)
5. Trio Lirico, Franziska Pietsch, Sophia Reuter & Johannes Krebs – String Trio in a Minor, Op. 77b: II. Larghetto (06:58)
6. Trio Lirico, Franziska Pietsch, Sophia Reuter & Johannes Krebs – String Trio in a Minor, Op. 77b: III. Scherzo. Vivace (02:29)
7. Trio Lirico, Franziska Pietsch, Sophia Reuter & Johannes Krebs – String Trio in a Minor, Op. 77b: IV. Allegro con moto (06:17)
8. Trio Lirico, Detlev Eisinger, Franziska Pietsch, Sophia Reuter & Johannes Krebs – Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 133: I. Allegro con passione (non troppo Allegro) (12:49)
9. Trio Lirico, Detlev Eisinger, Franziska Pietsch, Sophia Reuter & Johannes Krebs – Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 133: II. Vivace – Molto meno vivace – Tempo primo (06:01)
10. Trio Lirico, Detlev Eisinger, Franziska Pietsch, Sophia Reuter & Johannes Krebs – Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 133: III. Largo con gran espressione (09:53)
11. Trio Lirico, Detlev Eisinger, Franziska Pietsch, Sophia Reuter & Johannes Krebs – Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 133: IV. Allegro con spirito (08:18)

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