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james wrote:

Seán wrote:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Trio in E flat major KV 563
François Fernandez (violin)
Ryō Terakado (viola)
Rainer Zipperling (cello)
I have had this on repeat play today as I try to get my head around this piece. The Grumiaux set mentioned earlier this week is on order from Zoverstocks.

I had never heard of this piece but, since all the mention of it on this thread, I have looked it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divertime ... 8Mozart%29

The term Divertimento is misleading since -- according to the article -- it is quite a substatioal work. Mozart wrote it towards the end of his life [in the same year as symphonies 38, 39 and 40].

Here are some quotes about the work ..

"......
Alfred Einstein writes in Mozart: His Character, His Work (and as excerpted in the notes to a Kennedy Center performance), his only completed string trio (there are fragments) shares with most divertimenti this six-movement format, but from that no lightness of tone should be understood – rather, "it is a true chamber-music work, and grew to such large proportions only because it was intended to offer ... something special in the way of art, invention, and good spirits. ... Each instrument is primus inter pares, every note is significant, every note is a contribution to spiritual and sensuous fulfillment in sound." Einstein called it "one of his noblest works."

Mozart's Divertimento in E-flat major is "one of a kind," according to the notes to an Emerson Quartet performance. "It is not only Mozart's only finished composition for string trio – it also appears to be the first such work by any composer." Though probably the first substantial work for the combination, it is not the first work written for string trio; there were works for violin, viola and cello written at least five years earlier, by Wenzel Pichl, and works for two violins and bass, probably based on the trio sonata, written much before that.
....."

If we still had the Listenning Project this work would be a perfect candidate.

James

james wrote:

Seán wrote:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Trio in E flat major KV 563
François Fernandez (violin)
Ryō Terakado (viola)
Rainer Zipperling (cello)
I have had this on repeat play today as I try to get my head around this piece. The Grumiaux set mentioned earlier this week is on order from Zoverstocks.

I had never heard of this piece but, since all the mention of it on this thread, I have looked it up.

If we still had the Listenning Project this work would be a perfect candidate.

James

Seán wrote: I haven't started taking it one movement at a time yet. I am inclined to listen to the whole work in a sitting. I will start doing that in a day or two. It is great music and this is a very fine recording.

Seán wrote:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Trio in E flat major KV 563
François Fernandez (violin)
Ryō Terakado (viola)
Rainer Zipperling (cello)
I have had this on repeat play today as I try to get my head around this piece. The Grumiaux set mentioned earlier this week is on order from Zoverstocks.

Jose Echenique wrote:

Seán wrote:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Trio in E flat major KV 563
François Fernandez (violin)
Ryō Terakado (viola)
Rainer Zipperling (cello)
I have had this on repeat play today as I try to get my head around this piece. The Grumiaux set mentioned earlier this week is on order from Zoverstocks.

This recording was was originally released on the Ricercar Label, and all things considered is my prime recommendation for this supreme masterpiece.

Seán wrote:

Jose Echenique wrote:
This recording was was originally released on the Ricercar Label, and all things considered is my prime recommendation for this supreme masterpiece.

Well that is good to know, thanks Pepe.