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"Piano Centric" features works by Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Ibert, Rimsky-Korsakov.

Released on Opening Day Entertainment(ODEG)

Featuring Kathryn Tremills with Trio D'Argento and soloists of the Canadian brass

Kathryn Tremills: piano
Sibylle Marquardt: flute
Peter Stoll: Clarinet
Achilles Liarmakopoulos: trombone
Eric Reed: french horn

Since its inception the piano has played a major role in the history and
development of Chamber Music. Because it can attain a near orchestral volume
of sound and complexity and yet be played with the precision and intimacy of a single line instrument, it is an instrument perfectly suited to the compositions presented on this album.
What better place to start than with the music of Beethoven, a composer who
was involved with the earliest designs of the pianoforte? His Piano Trio in B flat major is a delightful way to explore the combination of instruments with the piano. Trio d Argento then performs the two French works on the disc Saint Saëns spirited Tarantella and the Deux Interludes by Jacques Ibert. These two works have become a staple of the core repertoire for Piano Trio flute, clarinet and piano. Finishing this chamber music excursion is a work of majestic proportions, the Quintet for Piano and Winds, Opus 79 by Nicolai Rimsky Korsakov, whose early years included self immersion in learning about orchestration. With piano as
the central player along with state of the art modern instruments, the works
collected here spring to life!