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CLEMENTI TRIO ~ FANNY MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL/REBECCA CLARKE LARGO 5103 ~ GERMANY ~ Classical This release features two women composers. One is Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, the older sister of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, whose piano trio op.11 was composed in 1846/47. The English musician Rebecca Clarke composed her trio in 1921. It is a passionate, advanced work for British music of its time, with a spikey idiom and an English folk overlay.

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CLEMENTI TRIO ~ TAILLEFERRE / MILHAUD / SHOSTAKOVICH / ROSLAVETS - PIANO TRIOS LARGO 5112 ~ GERMANY ~ Classical Regarded as "one of the most unusual and challenging music collections of recent years", this release by the Clementi TrioFind albums by this artist features Dmitri ShostakovichFind albums by this artist`s remarkable Piano Trio no. 1, dedicated by the composer to Tatiana GlivenkoFind albums by this artist, one of his first loves. In strong contrast come two fascinating examples of French music "after Claude DebussyFind albums by this artist" by Darius MilhaudFind albums by this artist and Germaine TailleferreFind albums by this artist.

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CLEMENTI TRIO ~ ZEMLINSKY-TRIO OP.3/SCHOENBERG-VERKLAERTE LARGO 5111 ~ GERMANY ~ Classical This recording unites two chamber music works written shortly before the turn of the last century: Alexander Zemlinsky`s piano trio op.3 and Schoenberg`s famous `Transfigured Night`. Both works belong to a musical era which was still clearly under the influence of Wagner and Brahms, but in which dissonances were increasingly to be heard and harmonic harshness was not always resolved.

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