Inspired by Song Munich Piano Trio And Friends

• Ralph Vaughan Williams ( 1872–1958): Piano Quintet in C minor for Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass and Piano (1903)
• 1I. Allegro con fuoco09:09
• 2II. Andante09:27
• 3III. Fantasia quasi variazioni, Moderato09:43
• Franz Schubert (1797–1828): Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 114, D 667 Trout Quintet (1820)
• 4I. Allegro vivace13:27
• 5II. Andante06:55
• 6III. Scherzo, Presto04:08
• 7IV. Tema con variazioni, Andantino07:39
• 8V. Allegro giusto06:33
• Total Runtime01:07:01

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This is already the seventh exciting CD presented to us by the Munich Piano Trio on GENUIN. Together with Tilo Widenmeyer (viola) and Alexander Rilling (double bass) they have an exciting contrast to offer: the piano quintets of Franz Schubert – the famous Trout Quintet – and of Ralph Vaughan Williams. And they allow us to sense that both composers were gifted art song composers, for each phrase is breathed and felt so that one would like to sing along. The early work of the English folksong collector is an genuinely astonishing discovery: this is great late romanticism on a Brahmsian scale and with an aplomb that almost reminds one of Richard Strauss!

Münchner Klaviertrio
Tilo Widenmeyer, viola
Alexander Rilling, double bass

Münchner Klaviertrio - Ensemble
Founded in 1982, the Münchner Klaviertrio (Munich Piano Trio) is one of the most active and sought-after German chamber music ensembles. The musicians have undertaken lengthy concert tours throughout Europe, North America, Russia, Japan, China and a few African countries. The Trio has given concerts in the world’s most famous venues, including Berlin’s Philharmonic Chamber Music Hall, New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall, Munich’s Cuvilliés Theater, Hercules Hall and Prince Regent’s Theater, Tokyo’s Suntory and Casals Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall. Festival engagements have included the Munich Opera Festival, the Orlando Festival and the European Chamber Music Festival in Strasbourg. Collaborative performances with renowned German critic and author Joachim Kaiser also play a major role in the Trio’s concert activity. The Münchner Klaviertrio has become a welcome guest worldwide with its exceptional programming. Repertoire includes the masterpieces of the trio literature, as well as less frequently performed Romantic and modern works, including new compositions written especially for the ensemble. Fono Forum praises the “precision and homogeneity of its ensemble,” and the Süddeutsche Zeitung admires the Trio’s “well balanced agogic, fervent depiction of the musical lines, refreshingly lively phrasing” as well as its “outstanding, harmonious blending of accompanied and solo passages.” Global master classes, frequent performances on radio and television, and more than 30 CDs round off the activities of the Münchner Klaviertrio.

Tilo Widenmeyer - Viola
Tilo Widenmeyer was born 1966 in Heilbronn, Germany. At the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart he studied viola with Madeline Prager and chamber music with the Melos Quartet. In this time he took part in numerous master classes, including Kim Kashkashian, Wolfram Christ, Barbara Westphal, Bruno Giuranna, Valery Gradow and Leonard Hokanson. In 1991 he received a scholarship from Villa Musica (Mainz). Since 1994 he is a member of the Munich State Opera and very much in demand as a chamber musician, especially in piano quartet ensembles.

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