Trained by Mozart and Haydn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel enjoyed the highest reputation as a composer and virtuoso performer of his day. His piano trios are characterised by their richness of sonority, good humour and flowing melodic inventiveness. While the influence of Beethoven can be heard, Hummel’s own creative voice is highly distinctive. The early Piano Trio, Op. 12 exudes the atmosphere of Vienna at the turn of the 19th century, and the Grand Trio is a concerto in all but name, the demands on the pianist expressly designed for its dedicatee Johann Baptist Cramer.
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“…music well worth befriending, especially in such lively company. In terms of other intégrales, Lucy Gould, Alice Neary and Benjamin Frith are clearly preferable…Frith in particular dancing his way with palpable pleasure through the many pages of nonstop allegro vivace and presto semiquavers. Well recorded, too…”
Jeremy Nichols – Gramophone magazine – July 2015
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