BORODIN A. (1833-1887) PIANO TRIO, STRING SEXTET, STRING TRIO, SERENATA ALLA SPAGNOLA

Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) - Chamber Music - Vol.III

1.-3. Piano Trio in D major (unfinished) (1862) 22:08

4.-5. String Sextet in D minor (Heidelberg, 1860) 8:15

6. String Trio for Two Violins and Cello in G minor, on a Russian song 'How Did I Grieve Thee" (1855) 5:57

7.-8. String Trio for Two Violins and Cello in G major (1855) 16:09

9. Serenata Alla Spagnola for String Quartet (1886) 2:11

Kinsky Trio Prague: Lucie Sedláková-Hůlová violin, Martin Sedlák cello, Slávka Pěchočová piano

Pražák Quartet: Pavel Hůla, Vlastimil Holek violins, Josef Klusoň viola, Michal Kaňka cello

Jan Pěruška viola

The young Kinsky Trio continues the tradition of the Czech chamber music school: that of the Suk and Guarneri Trios as much as that of the famous quartets: the Vlach and Smetana yesterday, today the Zemlinsky and Pražák. Under the leadership of Pavel

Hůla, primarius of the latter, these 'sins of youth' again reveal their spontaneity and native Russian lyricism, souvenirs of afternoons of chamber music in which Borodin, an amateur cellist, participated in Saint Petersburg and Europe.

(Praga Digitals)