Trio Parnassus

The Trio Parnassus has maintained a reputation among the finest piano trios in Germany through the latter-twentieth and early-twenty first centuries despite a good amount of personnel changes. The ensemble is rolling out a popularity for straddling two rather exclusive worlds in its repertory options: although it has standards through the Classical and Intimate periods, aswell as much twentieth hundred years and contemporary functions, it has additionally devoted enough time towards the rediscovery of neglected compositions by nineteenth hundred years composers like Woldemar Bargiel, Joseph Rheinberger, Philipp Scharwenka, and many others. Furthermore, the Trio provides unearthed previously unheard functions by mainstream experts like Robert Schumann: in 2005 the Trio premiered (and afterwards documented) Schumann’s early C minimal Quartet in a fresh version (the initial got lacking parts) by Schumann scholar Dr. Joachim Draheim. The Trio Parnassus provides produced over 30 recordings, all for German label MD&G. The Trio Parnassus was shaped in 1982 in the effort of its cellist, the just first member still using the group, Michael Gross. Parnassus players pianist Chia Chou, violinist Yamei Yu, and Gross represent the 4th different grouping. They have been around in place since 2005, enough time when Yu changed violinist Wolfgang Schroder. Schroder, subsequently, changed violinist Wolf-Dieter Streicher in 1996 and Chia Chou changed pianist Friedmann Rieger in 1989. Through all of the adjustments the ensemble provides maintained a regularly spirited design and refined technique: as the audio may have transformed, the amount of play provides, if anything, improved over time. From its inception the outfit impressed critics and general public as well. Early recordings consist of an recording of the entire piano trios of Mozart, released in 1991, and it had been the critical a reaction to this two-CD arranged that garnered worldwide acclaim for the group. Further successes ensued: in 1996 the Parnassus players debuted in NY at Lincoln Middle and scored a significant triumph. The next season they debuted at Wigmore Hall in London, and in 1999 at Washington’s Country wide Gallery, both moments with great achievement. In the brand new hundred years the ensemble provides remained active with concert schedules throughout European countries, including at Valencia, Spain (November 2006), Amsterdam (Feb 2007), and Sint-Truiden, Belgium (Feb 2007). Recordings add a 2005 two-CD group of the entire piano trios of Rheinberger and a 2006 SACD problem of Schumann piano quartets with violist Hariolf Schlichtig. By 2010, the ensemble acquired recorded the entire piano trios of over 20 composers, which range from Mozart to Gade to Vasks.