PACM021:
Piano Trio No 1 in B flat (D898) - Schubert
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Alfred
Cortot, Jacques Thibaud, Pablo Casals
Recorded 5-6 July 1926, Kingsway Hall, London.
Released as HMV 78s, D.B. 947-950
Matrix
numbers: CR533 - CR540 (all 1st takes) (also numbered 08273-08280)
CR540 uses the alternate (A) cutting of the 1st take.
(Duration
30'55")
Play
sample movement:
Casals
- Cortot - Thibaud
The legendary
trio of Cortot, Thibaud and Casals is woefully under-represented
in the recording catalogue. Each a major artist in his own right, the trio
came together for a month each year to tour between 1907 and 1934 (when
split due to political differences). And yet they only recorded seven pieces,
between 1926 and 1929 - two Trios by Beethoven, and one a piece by Haydn,
Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann, together with Brahms' Double
Concerto with Cortot at the baton. (Full details of their performances and
recordings can be found at Youngrok Lee's superb website here.)
Of
these recordings, the Schubert was the first, recorded in July 1926. This
session ran so well and so smoothly that the trio, who'd always concentrated
on the perfection of a relatively limited repertoire, was able to record
Beethoven's Kakadu Variations and the same time.
Despite
the age of the recording and the use of very early electric recording
technology - microphones were introduced into the recording process commercially
in 1925 - this remains an amazingly powerful and valuable record of one
of the great trios of all time. Every exquisite nuance of playing, phrasing
and timing is preserved for the listener's enjoyment, and what residual
surface noise remains is quickly forgotten in this magical performance.
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