A World of Romance: Reinecke: Trio for Oboe, Horn & Piano; Trio for Viola, Clarinet & Piano; Trio for Clarinet, Horn & Piano [Original recording remastered]

Carl Reinecke (Composer), The Dallas Chamber Players (Performer), Eric Barr (Performer), Stephen Girko (Performer), Barbara Hustus (Performer), Gregory Hustus (Performer), Simon Sargon (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

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• Performer: The Dallas Chamber Players, Eric Barr, Stephen Girko, Barbara Hustus, Gregory Hustus, et al.
• Composer: Carl Reinecke
• Audio CD (August 10, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Klavier
• ASIN: B000003M5E
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #277,486 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #22 in Music > Classical > Historical Periods > Romantic (c.1820-1910) > Composers > Reinecke, Carl

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This disc is on the Klavier label.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding musicianship and wonderful compositions., September 16, 1998

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This review is from: A World of Romance: Reinecke: Trio for Oboe, Horn & Piano; Trio for Viola, Clarinet & Piano; Trio for Clarinet, Horn & Piano (Audio CD)

This CD is wonderful for musicians and music lovers alike. Reinecke's trios are underappreciated and not heard often enough. One listen and you will fall in love with these pieces. The musicians are the best kept secret in Dallas. From the velvety horn playing of Greg Hustis to the intensity of Eric Barr, this CD demonstrates the best of all the players. After you buy one for yourself, you'll find yourself buying more for friends and relatives. This CD is a great find and you will love it more with each listen.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Carl Reinecke Trios --- incomplete!, December 20, 2002

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This review is from: A World of Romance: Reinecke: Trio for Oboe, Horn & Piano; Trio for Viola, Clarinet & Piano; Trio for Clarinet, Horn & Piano (Audio CD)

This CD is a waste of money. The Trio, Op.188 for Piano, Oboe and Horn has a big cut in the 4th movement. I feel I wasted my money because they leave out measures 87 to 141. It is a difficult passage so perhaps the performers just can't play it. If this is the case, then why did they record it? I hope you look for another CD and skip on by this one. The Dallas Chamber Players need to go back to the practice room!

4.0 out of 5 stars Well-crafted, often beautiful music in assured performances, January 25, 2011

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This review is from: A World of Romance: Reinecke: Trio for Oboe, Horn & Piano; Trio for Viola, Clarinet & Piano; Trio for Clarinet, Horn & Piano (Audio CD)

Carl Reinecke was a consummate craftsman with an attractive musical personality and a rather fertile musical imagination. He was a productive composer, but at his death in 1910 (at the age of 86) his style would have been viewed as so conservative it could almost have passed as a representative of some "neo"-movement. Fashion seems never to have appealed to him and he seems to have valued solid craftsmanship above all else - even the emotional content of the music seems to be viewed from an intellectualized distance, and he seems to have admitted himself that his music was rather superficial. Stylistically, it breathes the air of Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, Mendelssohn and perhaps Brahms though with an added air of bourgeoisie civility - but if that comment sounds disparaging, I wish to add that the music is often quite delightful; thematically rich, skillfully wrought, rarely outstaying its welcome and exhibiting unerring control over the material.

The three trios on this disc are relatively late. The trio op.188 in a minor for oboe, horn and piano dates from 1886-87. It is the lightest, shortest and most Schumannesque of the three works; classical in conception but always with a focus on melody. It is a nice, romantically wistful work that conspicuously avoids plumbing any depths. The opening Sonata-allegro is songful and rather beautiful (at least "pretty"); the elfin scherzo catchy and the Adagio really touching (the strongest single movement of the work); the final rondo is rather shallow but rounds up the material from the earlier movements relatively effectively.

The trio op. 264 in A major for clarinet, viola and piano is wistfully introspective and meditative. It's undeniably an "old person's work", one looking back on a long compositional career (it was written right after he retired from the conservatory in 1902) and avoiding all temptations to be clever, whimsical or capricious. It seems also to be more concerned with overall textures and integration of lines rather than emphasizing the individual voices. The first movement is luminous and rather Brahmsian, but I found the middle movements (Intermezzo and Legende) rather undistinguished. The autumnal finale closes the work with a clever network of thematic cross-references, however.

The trio op.274 in B flat for clarinet, horn and piano was completed in 1905. It is somewhat more passionate than the other works and exudes an appealing, nostalgic warmth. Slightly eclectic - as if Reinecke lets his favorite composers all have their turn at shining through the score - it is a very attractive work with a wide dynamic and emotional range, all skillfully woven together into an admirably structurally coherent whole. The opening Allegro is arresting (and slightly harmonically ambiguous) and the slow movement surprisingly troubled; the scherzo, however, is bubbling with joy and life-affirmation and the energetic (though restrained) finale very satisfying.

The performances are generally very fine and even though the op.188 work is cut this didn't really bother me significantly. The sound is warm and clear as well, and this is, in the end, a very recommendable (if perhaps not entirely indispensable) release of some fine, romantic chamber music.