Grumiaux Trio Recital 1966

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This intriguing coupling of early Beethoven with Mozart reveals both kinship and individual styles. Recorded in a single concert, the Grumiaux Trio's performances are of burnished tone and aria-like... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th May 2015
Catalogue No: 93727
Label: Hänssler
Length: 76 minutes

Beethoven: String Trio in G major, Op. 9 No. 1

Work length24:41

$6.00

$7.80

Grumiaux Trio

I. Adagio - Allegro con brio

Track length8:21

$2.00

$2.60

II. Adagio ma non tanto e cantabile

Track length8:10

$2.00

$2.60

III. Scherzo. Allegro

Track length2:40

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Presto

Track length5:30

$1.00

$1.30

Mozart: Duo for violin & viola in G major, K423

Work length13:12

$3.00

$3.90

Arthur Grumiaux, Georges Janzer

I. Allegro

Track length4:35

$1.00

$1.30

II. Adagio

Track length3:29

$1.00

$1.30

III. Rondo. Allegro

Track length5:08

$1.00

$1.30

Mozart: Divertimento in E flat major, K563

Work length38:54

$8.00

$10.40

Grumiaux Trio

I. Allegro

Track length6:11

$1.00

$1.30

II. Adagio

Track length8:21

$2.00

$2.60

III. Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio

Track length5:44

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Andante

Track length7:26

$2.00

$2.60

V. Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio

Track length5:14

$1.00

$1.30

VI. Allegro

Track length5:58

$1.00

$1.30

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The three musicians Arthur Grumiaux, Georges Janzer and Eve Czako met on June 8, 1966 at Schwetzingen Castle. The result was a memorable concert from the Belgian-Hungarian Grumiaux Trio. The Belgian violinist Arthur Grumiaux and his two chamber music partners selected one of Beethoven's String Trios, Op.9 and the extensive E flat Major Divertimento by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. However, instead of a third trio, the ensemble selected a duo for violin and viola by Mozart.

A native of the Belgian Villers-Perwin, Arthur Grumiaux (1921-1986) was the authoritative personality of this trio. As one of the leading (and last) representatives of the Franco-Belgian violin school (Eugène Ysaye and Henri Vieuxtemps were the founders), Grumiaux was a highly regarded soloist and chamber musician. Together with violist Georges Janzer - a member of the famous Hungarian Végh Quartet - and his wife, the Hungarian cellist Eva Czako, Arthur Grumiaux has drawn together a flexible and sinuous chamber music Trinity.

In this concert, the thematic and motivic characteristics of all the musical voices are vividly present; the lively, tuneful, flowery, and sometimes elegiac trajectories of Beethoven’s G Major trio unfolds and blossoms, the voices forming an organic network of melodic veins in which the music pulses and flows, pausing only briefly to lapse into a reverie. Mozart's String Trio K563 was no doubt Beethoven’s model, and triumphs with the light transparency of its dancing and singing figures.

In a word, this a most memorable concert that will welcome repeated listening.

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August 2015

This intriguing coupling of early Beethoven with Mozart reveals both kinship and individual styles. Recorded in a single concert, the Grumiaux Trio's performances are of burnished tone and aria-like expressiveness.

Grumiaux Trio Recital 1966

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