LCCE Performs Louise Farrenc - Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano, Op. 45 скачать в хорошем качестве

LCCE Performs Louise Farrenc - Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano, Op. 45

Louise Farrenc - Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano, Op. 45 "Isabelle Vengerova. Rosina Lhevinne. Adele Marcus. Yvonne Loriod. All major-league piano teachers at major-league conservatories, and all women. They shared an unheralded pedagogical ancestor in early 19th century composer and pianist Louise Farrenc, mainstay piano faculty at the Paris Conservatoire for decades. As we all know, European music outside of opera was mostly an exclusive men’s club well into the 19th century. Even before Clara Schumann started hammering against those moldy old walls, Farrenc established herself at the highest levels of the profession. She studied with the best—Ignaz Moscheles and Johann Nepomuk Hummel in piano, and Anton Reicha in composition. She concertized in prestigious venues. Her compositions were played by headliners such as Joseph Joachim. As a composer she was of a distinctly conservative stripe, eschewing excess à la Liszt or bling à la Berlioz. Her catalog runs to the traditional genres: chamber music, symphonies, and (understandably) lots of solo piano stuff. No opera, though. After her death in 1875 she, and her music, fell into obscurity, and that’s a pity. She left a considerable legacy, well worth resuscitating—as in the fine trio for flute, cello and piano of 1861. To be sure, she wasn’t all that original a voice; much of Op. 45 could pass for vintage Mendelssohn with soupçons of Robert Schumann sprinkled hither and yon. But there’s a great deal to be said for professionally crafted, attractive and effective music, and Farrenc’s Op. 45 trio is all that and more, early Romanticism in all its considerable allure." — Scott Foglesong Musicians: Stacey Pelinka, flute Leighton Fong, cello Allegra Chapman, piano Program: Long Distance Call, 29th Season (2021-2022) Audio and Video: Zach Miley www.leftcoastensemble.org