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Piano trios op. 63 & 110
Robert Schumann

Piano trios op. 63 & 110

Voces Intimae

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917252026
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Catalog number: CC 72520
Releasedate: 27-10-11
Challenge Classics welcomes with open arms Voces Intimae! This is their debut cd with music of Schumann on the label. The intent of the Trio is to restore the music to its original transparency, to try to make evident the original intentions of the composers through sound and phrasing, and bring to light the history that is tied to the piece.
  • The trio has appeared in such halls as the Wigmore Hall and St. John’s Smith Square in London, the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musik Halle in Hamburg, the Vredenburg in Utrecht, Amici della Musica of Florence, Unione Musicale of Turin, Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti of Rome and others
  • The trio had very good reviews for their Warner album with works of Hummel
  • This is their debut on Challenge Classics!
  • Voces Intimae has also recorded the trios of Franz Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn Bartoldy, as well as a selection of a rare repertoire of 19th century Fantasias based on the operas of Vincenzo Bellini, all of which on period instruments
  • The intent of the Trio is to restore the music to its original transparency and they succeeded!
The idea of leaving a testimony of our interpretation of the trios of Robert Schumann was born after a long musical, intellectual and personal journey.  Achieving a sincere and intense reading of Schumann’s work that would contain a personal vision of his music and his personality was certainly not a trivial task; The decision to perform his trios on original instruments was a means of bringing our sound closer to that of his musical environment, and to the sounds that he knew and loved, the sounds which filled his life and which obsessed him to the point of madness.  The tones of a mid-eighteenth century pianoforte (a magnificent J.B. Streicher of 1847) and of a violin (A. Mariani, 1648) and a cello (a C. Bergonzi copy from the late 1700s) mounted with uncovered gut strings, and their simple, surprising balance of tone, brought back to us a unique light, warm and intense, with which we tried to illuminate this extraordinary music.  In any case, we are talking about original instruments; that is, a means of expressing our vision of these magnificent compositions; The fundamental element remains the idea, the reading of these scores, the sounds which we imagine deep inside us before they are ever produced by the instruments at our disposal, our true intimate voices." (from the linernotes with this cd wrtten by Voces Intimae)