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When three young musicians met in 1995 for playing chamber music in addition to
their engagement in leading positions at the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
(Saxon State Orchestra Dresden) and the MDR-Sinfonieorchester (Symphonic
Orchestra of the Central German Broadcasting Station), respectively, the Dresden
String Trio was born.
Inspired
by compositions for string trio by famous composers of the 20th
century like Jean Françaix, Alfred Schnittke and Ernst von Dohnányi, the
challenge was to discover this type of chamber music, usually being overshadowed
by string quartets. The three musicians wanted to help these compositions with
their specifics to a new flowering on stage.
Already
the first concerts confirmed the expectations of the three Saxon musicians. The
press praised their performance as "delicate chamber music at the
fingertips" and attested them to "having revealed themselves to be a
fine-sounding trinity par excellence" as well as to "remind the
audience of the legendary Trio Italiano d'Archi".
Invitations
to established concert podia in Germany like the Dresden Semper Opera, the
Munich Philharmonic as well as to several music festivals like the Vreden Music
Festival, the Saxon-Bohemian Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, and
the Music Summer of the Central German Broadcasting Station followed.
Meanwhile,
the repertoire includes numerous compositions written originally for violin,
viola and violoncello like all the string trios by Beethoven, Mozart and
Schubert.
Beyond
the classical string trios, special attention is given to modern compositions by
Schnittke, Françaix, R.Strauss, Dohnányi and Kodály.
Already
after the first CD, containing the Trio H flat maior of Schubert and the
Divertimento E flat maior of Mozart, the ensemble was higly praised by
specialised press. The ensemble got the best points in all categories for the
recording of the string trio of Ludwig van Beethoven by the professional
journal “Klassik heute 2/2001”. The CD No 4 was recorded 2002 in cooperation
with MDR-Kultur, containing works of Sibelius, Kodaly, R. Strauss, Dohnányi,
Françaix and Enescu. In the Kulturjournal of the LVZ, it is said that if such
musical outsiders with sense and sound culture are unearthed, like by the
ensemble Dresdner Streichtrio, then excavation turns into discovery.
("Wenn
derartige musikalische Außenseiter mit Feinsinn und Klangkultur zu Tage
befördert werden, wie vom, geraten Ausgrabungen zu Entdeckungen.“)
The latest
recordings include works of Herzogenberg and Reger with the title "accordo
perfetto”. The first reviews to this CD say that the ensemble sound offers
unequalled opportunities among the ‘trio-scenery’ and it would be true
enjoyment to listen to the warm tones, the vivit phrases and the – as to say –
Brahms like turns (
www.klassik.com: „[…] ein Ensembleklang, der in
der Trio-Landschaft wahrlich seinesgleichen suchen dürfte […] und es ist eine
wahre Lust, den warmen Tönen, den lebhaften Phrasen und den - nun ja –
Brahms’schen Wendungen zu lauschen.)
The CD
recordings are made by the label Querstand.
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