Smetana & Listz : Piano Trios / Trio Wanderer
) | Label: harmonia mundi Catalog: 902060 Format: CD Trio WandererSmetana: Trio op.15 This resolutely elegiac disc offers an opportunity to discover, through their chamber music, the dark side of two composers who are not often associated. Smetana's primary purpose was to give utterance to a cry of pain at his daughter's death through the appropriate medium of the piano trio. In the Liszt pieces, elegies and funeral gondolas remind us of the deeply human and tormented nature of a composer haunted by death and who, more than any other, was capable of expressing its icy smile. The Trio Wanderer realise all this in deeply moving performances.  Price: $22.98 |