Newly formed Trio Marie Soldat releases its enticing debut album. Comprising violinist Cecilia Bernardini, fortepianist Keiko Shichijo and cellist Marcus van den Munckhof, the Dutch trio performs two E flat major masterpieces of the genre.
The Dutch trio takes its name from Marie Soldat-Roeger, a pupil of Joseph Joachim and celebrated violinist who formed perhaps the first all-women chamber group in 1887 known as the Soldat Quartet. The programme is fittingly performed on period instruments.
Mellow in tone and richly textured, Beethoven’s Op. 70 No. 2 belongs to the composer’s so-called ‘middle period’. Composed in 1808 at the end of a particularly creative phase which saw a flurry of expansive works, the trio looks back at Beethoven’s one-time teacher Haydn.
Trio Marie Soldat rounds off its recital with an enticing account of what is perhaps the pinnacle of the trio repertoire, Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2. Although later revised by the composer himself, the Trio gives a rare chance to hear the longer, seldom performed premiere edition.
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"For its first album, Trio Marie Soldat asserts a strong artistic identity, delivering a historically informed and resolutely Dionysian reading of Beethoven and Schubert."
**** Excellent Album
Fabienne Bouvet - Classica magazine (France) - February 2022
"... The young Trio Marie Soldat shows great promise in the field of 'historically informed' Romantic music; look out for their next albums."
**** Excellent Album
Diapason - November 2021
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