Jean
Fournier (violin)
Antonio Janigro (cello)
Paul Badura-Skoda (piano)
Recorded
in 1954, issued as Westminster LPs 52-42, 52-67
Download ID: 223710/413372
(Duration
65'18")
Trio
in E Major, K. 542
Trio
in G Major, K. 496
Trio
in C Major, K. 548
Play
sample movement:
We continue
our reevaluation of recordings made by Jean Fournier, Antonio Janigro
and Paul Badura-Skoda with their complete Mozart Piano Trios, of which
this is the second of two volumes.
The of
the three works presented here, the Trio in G, K496, dates from 1786,
the other two from 1788, the year in which Mozart wrote his three last
symphonies. All three are in impeccable Mozartian taste, though it is
only with the later two that we start to see him considering something
a little more adventurous for the cellist than had previously been the
case. Up until these works, the cello part generally offered simple support
to the piano's lower notes, but in the middle movement of the Trio in
E, K542, there is the suggestion of the kind of balance of forces between
piano and strings which would later be more typical of Beethoven or Schubert.
Similarly
it is the slow middle movement of the Trio in C, K549, which appears to
foreshadow Schubert, a composer more usually associated with the lineage
of Beethoven and Haydn. The final movement is purely Mozartian, a "tightly
written" rondo (in the words of the original sleevenotes) and it
is this which is offer when you click on the play button here.
Thus we
have some marvellous Mozart, which is perhaps nowhere near as well known
as it deserves to be (a check in the recording catalogues shows not a
single LP available in the UK of Mozart's trios in the late 1970s, for
example), superb playing, and excellent recordings brought back to life
thanks to the mercurial touch of vinyl maestro Peter Harrison.
