A Retrospective - Trio Zimmermann
BIS BIS-2677 (5 discs)
Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid
Classical - Chamber
Works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Hindemith, Schönberg
Trio Zimmermann
In 2007 Frank Peter Zimmermann was able to realize his long-cherished dream to establish a string trio, together with Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltéra. Three individually superb string players do not necessarily add up to a top-flight trio – even if they all play on instruments by Stradivarius, as here – but Trio Zimmermann immediately made a name for itself at international festivals and prestigious concert venues. In 2010 the trio released its first disc – with Mozart's seminal Divertimento – to critical acclaim. (More than 10 years later, that recording was the top recommendation in the Record Review series Building a Library on BBC Radio 3.)
On following offerings, the ensemble explored the later repertoire for string trio: two discs with Beethoven's contributions to the genre, and a third with works by Hindemith and Schoenberg which have garnered distinctions such as Diapason de l’Année, the Chamber Award from BBC Music Magazine and a ‘Jahrespreis’ from the German Record Critics’ Award association. For their fifth disc to date the trio went back in time, however, as the three members together prepared a performing version of Bach's Goldberg Variations, described as ‘a triumph of combined technical ingenuity and musical insight’ in The Strad. These five discs have now been collected into a boxed-set retrospective, offering lovers of chamber music more than 5 hours of glorious music-making, in top-notch sound and including the original booklets with full documentation.
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- Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
- Ludwig van Beethoven: String Trio No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 3
- Ludwig van Beethoven: String Trio No. 2 in D major, Op. 8 'Serenade'
- Ludwig van Beethoven: String Trio No. 3 in G major, Op. 9 No. 1
- Ludwig van Beethoven: String Trio No. 4 in D major, Op. 9 No. 2
- Ludwig van Beethoven: String Trio No. 5 in C minor, Op. 9 No. 3
- Paul Hindemith: String Trio No. 1, Op. 34
- Paul Hindemith: String Trio No. 2 (1933)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Trio in E flat major, K. 563 'Divertimento'
- Arnold Schoenberg: String Trio, Op. 45
- Franz Schubert: String Trio No. 1 in B flat major, D 471
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