Thieriot, chamber music-- volume 3!

[eschiss1]

Yay, Toccata Classics! A third volume of Thieriot's chamber music with two substantial quartets for piano and strings (from 1905 and 1913) is announced for September 20. Thank you!

[Mark Thomas]

Excellent!

[Ilja]

Yummy indeed. 

[Alan Howe]

Well spotted, Eric!

[Jonathan]

Splendid news!

[Alan Howe]

I'm really glad that this series is being continued so soon after vol.2 - from the excerpts available, this sounds absolutely wonderful. The other day I tried (once again) to get my head round Schoenberg's Violin Concerto, but I almost had a breakdown in the attempt (!) and so it's good to return to music by such as Thieriot - balm for the soul.

[eschiss1]

I agree on the first part, though I am a fan of the Schoenberg work, having even listened to it (sometimes in different recordings) every day for a month at one point iirc (a few decades ago, I think)...
(Now his violin phantasy, I do find hard going.)

[eschiss1]

I also see that Toccata Classics' Pipeline page still lists volume 2 as upcoming and volume 3 not at all. May need updating.

[Alan Howe]

This'll be an absolutely outstanding release...

[Gareth Vaughan]

I am really looking forward to it. Thieriot's music is very fine, IMHO.

[Alan Howe]

The 3rd and 4th Piano Quartets are now on YouTube:
No.3:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCeRrS5Oilw&t=188s
No.4:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3P4iQK3yLs

This is truly superb music. As good as Brahms, I'd say.

[eschiss1]

ok, imho the real test of that statement is whether a work will -also- repay relistening over time etc* but I catch your meaning and thanks for the links!

*Just heard one of Brahms' own piano quartets live this weekend that I had not heard live before, and noticed things I hadn't despite knowing the work for decades. (May there always be a reason to come back, of course...)

[Alan Howe]

For me this is one of the chamber music releases of 2024. No.4 is absolutely sublime - music on such an exalted level of inspiration that I'm astonished it's almost completely unknown. Until now!

[Mark Thomas]

Absolutely agree! The Second Piano Quartet has been available for some time from cpo and there's a pretty decent amateur performance of the early First Piano Quartet on YouTube.

[eschiss1]

The early first piano quartet's not only on YouTube, it's actually been recorded commercially. The coupling is Andreas Romberg's quartet Op.19- a composer who may be too early for us and hence the disc may have passed us by? (Also, it came out just this year.)