Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio / Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht - 2CD

This album pairs two works separated by only 17 years but whose composers seem at first glance to be worlds apart. The coupling of Tchaikovsky’s monumental Piano Trio in A minor (1882) with Schoenberg’s ‘Verklärte Nacht’ (1899, in its original scoring for string sextet) reveals a line of musical continuity from the great Russian Romantic to the pioneering Viennese modernist. ‘Verklärte Nacht’ has itself been transfigured here in a new, never-before-recorded arrangement for piano trio by Henk Guittart, one of the world’s leading Schoenberg specialists. This debut recording from the Amsterdam Piano Trio features award-winning Hyperion pianist Andrey Gugnin alongside violinist Anna Lipkind-Mazor and cellist Dmitry Prokofiev.

1 Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 - 1: Pezzo elegiaco: Moderato assai
2 Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 - 2: Adagio con duolo e ben sostenuto
3 Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 - 3: Tema con variazioni: Tema
4 Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 - 4: Variation 1: L’istesso tempo
5 Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 - 5: Variation 2: Più mosso
6 Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 - 6: Variation 3: Allegro moderato
7 Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 - 7: Variations 4-6 L’istesso tempo – Tempo di valse
8 Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 - 8: Variation 7: Allegro moderato
9 Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 - 9: Variation 8: Fuga
10 Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 - 10: Variation 9: Andante flebile ma non tanto
11 Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 - 11: Variations 10-11: Tempo di mazurka – Moderato
12 Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50 - 12: Variazione finale e coda
13 Schoenberg/Guittart: Verklärte Nacht, Op 4 - 1: Grave (bar 1)
14 Schoenberg/Guittart: Verklärte Nacht, Op 4 - 2: A tempo (bar 63)
15 Schoenberg/Guittart: Verklärte Nacht, Op 4 - 3: A tempo (bar 188)
16 Schoenberg/Guittart: Verklärte Nacht, Op 4 - 4: Bar 249
17 Schoenberg/Guittart: Verklärte Nacht, Op 4 - 5: Poco adagio (bar 320)