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Trio Zimmermann plays Mozart’s Divertimento

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Catalogue numberBIS-1817 SACD
Release date2010-11-24
Discs1
Orig. sample rate88200Hz
Total time59:25

Classics Today 10/10: "This is a magnificent recording"; Music Web International: "Beautifully presented and recorded this impressive disc will prove a most worthwhile addition to any chamber music collection".

‘Each instrument is primus inter pares, every note is significant …’ is how the scholar Alfred Einstein described W.A. Mozart’s Divertimento in E flat major for string trio. What other work could then be more suitable for the first disc of a star-studded ensemble such as Trio Zimmermann, in which each member is very definitely first among equals? Composed in the same year as the three final symphonies, Mozart’s only real trio for violin, viola and cello is a weighty work – six movements and close to 50 glorious minutes of music – and the fact that Mozart chose the title Divertimento (from the Italian divertire: to amuse) for a piece of these dimensions has often been remarked upon. But to Mozart, there was no real dividing line between ‘serious’ art and pleasure or amusement – and so, to quote Einstein once more, he gave us ‘the most perfect, finest thing that has ever been heard in this world’. To round off the disc, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltéra have chosen to record Franz Schubert’s first contribution to the string trio genre, the opening – and only complete – movement (Allegro) of his String Trio in B flat major, D 471, written in 1816 when the composer was only nineteen.
 
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Extra material for download
 
 
  Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  Divertimento in E flat major, K563 47:08
01 I. Allegro 12:15 $ 2.94 USD
02 II. Adagio 11:10 $ 2.68 USD
03 III. Menuetto. Allegretto 05:18 $ 1.27 USD
04 IV. Andante 07:00 $ 1.68 USD
05 V. Menuetto. Allegretto 05:11 $ 1.24 USD
06 VI. Allegro 06:14 $ 1.50 USD
 
 
  Composer: Schubert, Franz
  String Trio in B flat major, D471
07 Allegro 10:56 $ 2.62 USD
 
  Album total 59:25
CelloPoltéra, Christian
ViolaTamestit, Antoine
ViolinZimmermann, Frank Peter
ComposerMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Schubert, Franz

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