The lesser of evils
Dec. 4th, 2007 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyrasantae
So instead of spending the $25 in my wallet at Wizards on a multiplayer expansion to Settlers of Catan which I'll probably never actually use (because the store didn't have the new edition in yet), I crossed the street and went to The Gramophone instead.
Except that they didn't have Rajaton's "Maa" yet, so I wandered around looking for something else to buy. I considered getting a recording of the Brahms piano trio I heard at a concert a couple of Fridays ago, but didn't find one; and so I ended up over looking at the Mendelssohn Op.66 recordings. I ended up picking out the one performed by the Gryphon Trio (they're Canadian, so yeah). It's also got the Lalo Op.26 on it (which I'm unfamiliar with).
But an indulgence is still an indulgence... none are really worth more than another...
It'll take me a while to get used to this recording, I think. The Op.66 means a lot to me and since ever, I've only heard the Haydn Trio's recording and at one concert (the names of the performers have been long lost to memory).
The Gryphon Trio takes the whole thing slightly quicker than the Haydn Trio does, and they seem to emphasize the OMG, SO MANY PIANO NOTES thing more by giving it a dry, crisp treatment. The entire piece is performed very ... brightly, which lowers the dramatic quality I liked in the other recording. But the clarity and articulation of the notes (in all parts, not just piano) is very nice. Some of those notes in the third movement I'm not even sure I've actually heard before :) There were some really weird articulation-type things I'm not sure were really effective in the first movement, though. Maybe they'll make more sense as I listen to it more.
Except that they didn't have Rajaton's "Maa" yet, so I wandered around looking for something else to buy. I considered getting a recording of the Brahms piano trio I heard at a concert a couple of Fridays ago, but didn't find one; and so I ended up over looking at the Mendelssohn Op.66 recordings. I ended up picking out the one performed by the Gryphon Trio (they're Canadian, so yeah). It's also got the Lalo Op.26 on it (which I'm unfamiliar with).
But an indulgence is still an indulgence... none are really worth more than another...
It'll take me a while to get used to this recording, I think. The Op.66 means a lot to me and since ever, I've only heard the Haydn Trio's recording and at one concert (the names of the performers have been long lost to memory).
The Gryphon Trio takes the whole thing slightly quicker than the Haydn Trio does, and they seem to emphasize the OMG, SO MANY PIANO NOTES thing more by giving it a dry, crisp treatment. The entire piece is performed very ... brightly, which lowers the dramatic quality I liked in the other recording. But the clarity and articulation of the notes (in all parts, not just piano) is very nice. Some of those notes in the third movement I'm not even sure I've actually heard before :) There were some really weird articulation-type things I'm not sure were really effective in the first movement, though. Maybe they'll make more sense as I listen to it more.
