About Schubert & Play list



Schubert’s two piano trios were composed late in his short life (his only trio prior to these is the short B flat trio movement D28 of 1812), probably in late 1827 and the summer of 1828, the year of his death. They are vast works, worthy of Schumann’s comment on Schubert’s Ninth Symphony of being of ‘heavenly length’. Although structured along similar lines to Beethoven’s piano trios, Schubert’s trios inhabit a different world to the older composer’s ‘Ghost’ or ‘Archduke’ works. Beethoven revelled in drama and complex and ingenious textures. Schubert concentrates instead on beautiful tunes, and eloquent dialogues between the three players. The music of the Austrian countryside permeates these works, and although they date from Schubert’s last months, they contain little of the world weariness and desolation of Winterreisse, the late sonatas or the proto-Mahlerian slow movement of the Tenth Symphony D936a.



00:00:00 01. Piano Trio No.1 in B flat D898 I. Allegro moderato

00:14:29 02. Piano Trio No.1 in B flat D898 II. Andante, un poco mosso

00:23:05 03. Piano Trio No.1 in B flat D898 III. Scherzo – Trio – Allegro

00:29:47 04. Piano Trio No.1 in B flat D898: IV Rondo – Allegro vivace – Presto

00:38:37 05. Piano Trio No.1 in B flat D898 Notturno in E flat D897

00:48:50 06. Piano Trio No.2 in E flat D929 I. Allegro

01:00:23 07. Piano Trio No.2 in E flat D929 II. Andante con moto

01:09:31 08. Piano Trio No.2 in E flat D929 III. Scherzando Allegro moderato 01:16:39 09. Piano Trio No.2 in E flat D929 IV. Allegro moderato