Bedřich Smetana - Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15
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- - Composer: Bedřich Smetana (2 March 1824 -- 12 May 1884)
- Performers: Devich Trio
- Year of recording: 2005
Piano Trio in G minor, JB 1:64, Op. 15, written in 1855.
00:00 - I. Moderato assai
11:29 - II. Allegro, ma non agitato
20:05 - III. Finale. Presto
The death of Smetana's daughter Bedřiška was the emotional impetus behind the composition of the Trio for Piano and Strings in G minor, Op. 15. After Bedřiška succumbed to scarlet fever on 6 September 1855, Smetana was devastated; the composer immersed himself in composition, producing the trio soon enough for it to be performed later that year. Critical response was negative and may have prompted Smetana to revise the piece two years later, despite the fact that Liszt praised the work when he heard it in 1856. It was the most significant piece of chamber music he had composed up to that time, but it was not published until 1879, in Hamburg.
The work is in three movements, all of which are in G minor:
- The first movement is intense and lyrical, and begins with the violin alone playing a theme on the dark G string. The theme's chromatic descent through a perfect fifth evokes a Baroque-era musical symbol for grief. In nineteenth century fashion, however, Smetana extends the melody before arriving at the secondary theme of this gloomy sonata-form movement. The second theme is brighter in character than the first, and this section is further lightened by upward chromatic shifts in harmony. The development section has a central high point, followed by meandering passages that give way to the recapitulation, which brings back the tragic mood.
- In the ensuing Intermezzo movement we hear references to the first movement. Its principal theme, a polka, seems to suggest the playful Bedřiška, although it is derived from the main theme of the first movement. The movement is divided into two alternativo sections, the first of which, pastoral in atmosphere, evokes Schumann. The second of these is more mournful and includes march-like rhythms.
- For the main theme of the rondo finale, Smetana borrows nearly 100 measures from his own Piano Sonata in G minor of 1846. He also uses a fugato figure from his Characteristic Variations on a Czech Folksong. Buzzing with restless energy, the rondo theme creates a stark contrast to the preceding Intermezzo. This energy, however, is interrupted by sad, lyrical episodes for the cello. Smetana creates rhythmic drive through the simultaneous sounding of duplets and triplets through long passages in the 6/8 time movement. When the secondary theme returns near the end, it is transformed into a funeral march, with drum-like figures as accompaniment. Perhaps surprisingly, the work ends in the major mode.
The Piano Trio is dedicated to Karel Stecker. - เพลง
1800's to 2000's and people still listening to this piece. so beautiful
Masterpiece. Thank you Smetana, we owe more recognition than for Moldau because you did more than what we expected from you.
The piano trio is my favourite instrumental combination and this trio one of my top favourites, music is so wonderful.
The piano trio is also my favorite ensemble, and this one is my second favorite, but that still says a lot because Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio is my favorite piece of all time
I love Shostakovich piano trios
This Music changed my life. Thank God for Smetana!
beautiful and devastating at the same time, couldnt hold on tears
me neither
21:32 heart-wrenching
I've developed a certain addiction to this piece. After some time of listening to other music, I always end up here.
same here!
Renata Linertová same here, this piece is haunting me
Same
20:54 - 21:19 is so amazing... I've never heard anything like it. The whole finale has become one of my favorite pieces of music; hauntingly sad yet so vibrant and magical too.
What about the end of the finale?
I will never understand why this work is not that well known.
because it has no "highlight" part. Almost every other compouser has some famous parts what makes them known
@@Je1imanekThe start is very memorizable
I lived near from Tyn nad Becvou CZ, where Smetana lived. There is Gabrielka way - called after his doughter Gabriela. She died age three years old.
Fantastic a great masterpiece. It anticipates many other composers. Technically very advanced and very expressive...I wonder if Brahms new this trio. Excellent. Thanks.
Un des plus grands trios de l'histoire de la musique de chambre, très bien interprété par le trio Devich.
Un grand merci à Olla-Vogala pour cette mise en ligne !
Un chef d’œuvre de plus qui nous fut offert
Nous sommes passés du monde de la création à celui de l’écoute car notre siècle grâce à la technologie nous permet le meilleur et le tout à portée d’oreilles
Incroyable !
GM
00:05 - I. Moderato assai
11:29 - ll. Allegro, ma non agitato
20:05 - lll. Finale. Presto
Smetana é nacionalista, romântico e moderno. Cada obra uma surpresa harmonico-instrumental.
"Perhaps surprisingly, the work ends in the major mode."
I don't find that surprising at all. The episode that came earlier and which then concludes the work sounds to me like he was imagining meeting his daughter in some form of after life where they will be frollicking through meadows together once more.
That music is so overjoyed it clearly says: "We will meet again and all will be fine".
Quotenwagnerianer i like your interpretation! For me though it sounds almost kind of mad. It reminds me of the similar, overly exultant passage at the end of the exposition in the first movement. It just sounds somehow inappropriate, like the very end of the piece, which is so abrupt. But the thing with those strange moments in music is that they cannot be explained, simply because it's music.
Music can be described, but it can never be explained.
You would wxpect him to go up a semi-tone on the second note but the third note is not the upper Leading-tone. It's the lower one, listen carefully.
a Major ending for an elegy suggests heaven, yes. Listen to Frank Bridge's beautiful Lament for his beloved 'Catherine' of the Lusitania
I must thank the algorythm of youtube for having given me this fantastic piece!
Likewise…
Thankyou so much for uploading. That transformed theme returning at bar 507 (28:15) is so beautiful, bittersweet and cathartic all at once. I can't remember the last time a bit of music drew tears like that.
I completely agree with you, yesterday I listened to the Sibelius' Violin Concerto 3.30-4.40 amazing
It s a typical musical transition. You can find it in so many composers.
agreed, words cant describe how it felt
Every time I listen to that moment is like I throw myself in a lake of tears
it gives me shivers
Although Smetana is quite well known especially if we are talking about czech composers, he is still underrated. There is a single piece by Smetana that people know- Moldau from Ma Vlast, of course, just this specific tone poem from six, not the whole work-. It's the first time I hear an another piece by Smetana besides his famous Moldau. Too bad I didn't searched anything else by him before, but I guess it's never too late.
It really depends. To the lay listener he is definately only known through "The Moldau". But the lay listener also only knows Beethoven by the Moonlight Sonata, the opening of the 5th Symphony and the Ode to Joy. So you can't rate how known a composer is by those standards.
Ma Vlast is not only Smetanas best known orchestral work, it is also his best orchestral work, period. And among his other works his opera "The bartererd Bride", the First String Quartet "From my life" and this Piano Trio, are the works most widely known. Or rather these should be the works that everybody who heard of Smetana should know.
Chef d'oeuvre..❤.
Extraordinary. Thank you for posting this.
BEAUTIFUL ! Thank you for posting !
Yes, Smetana is underrated. However, whenever I say one of my favourite composers is Medtner, people almost inevitably go "Smetana?"
oh hi👋👋👋
I love Medtner too, especially his piano sonatas.
叙情的な表現力がヴルタヴァに匹敵するものがある！
こんな作品も埋もれていたのか…！
もう勿体無さ過ぎる！
スメタナの作品よもっと国際的に知られてくれ！
Critical response was negative?? I'm wondering how much this was revised compared from the original because this is a fantastic piece of romantic literature.
The themes are amazing. The initial hook is incredibly effective. Total ear-worm. I'm not big on theory, but there seems no lack of complexity - maybe that was a problem before. It's easy for Romantic music to fall into a sentimental, ephemeral slump simply because of the sensitivity of balancing intense emotions with a complicated musical landscape. Or maybe the critics were just soulless automatons. That seemed to happen back then quite a lot...
The problem with Smetana was not the music in itself, because the general public always liked it, the problem was the nationalism of Smetana in a country ruled by Wien. He represented the inovation, the czech people, the new czech agains the old czechs, and the critics, mainly pro-german or german, could not forgive him.
@@sergioazevedo7390 Great, even maestros can't escape politics. Tsk tsk tsk.
@@thenameisgsarciIn fact, they were often involved by choice and/or necessity
In fact there were significant revisions made to the original piece. The premiere in 1850 of the trio met mixed reviews, however it impressed Franz Lizt, who's approval led Smetana to make revisions to the piece in 1858. The final version of the trio that we know today wasn't published until 1880. Many of Smetana's works were not appreciated for the masterpieces they are until after his death, including some of his operas that were written later in his life. Even his famous string quartet no. 1 was heavily criticized at the time of its release
Terrific - and a refreshing change from "Die Moldau".
this seems way ahead of its time
I never seem to get enough smetana
amazing. thanks for posting the score too.
YOOOOO THIS IS LIT 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
26:10 this melody is similar to Clara Schumann’s scherzo op. 14
이승준 incredible! that's a very interesting comparison, I can definitely see the resemblance
I do believe this is the first time I have heard this work. This NOT the sort of thing you will ever hear on the two local classical music stations. In fact, I know from their playlists that they are now braodcasting every 2nd and 3rd rate piece of music that can somehow be tied into the Holiday Season.
Merry BAH! and a happy HUMBUG!
+Harry Andruschak Then stop listening to those stations! There are many great internet classical music stations, and of course TH-cam and Spotify with an enormous selection of classical music to choose from.
olla-vogala As a matter of fact, I long ago quit listening to those two stations, and now thrive on You Tube. But i did stop by their websites to view their playlists, thats all.
28:05! 🌹🥺
Miluju to
This is a terrific performance.
How
i just had the funniest dream of my life - diary of a wimpy kid except it was a gritty action drama with this as it’s theme
manny was a cannibal and fucking killed people
i swear 1:58 best part
👏👏👏👏
Very pretty
Bedrich Smetana:g-moll Zongoratrió Op.15
1.Moderato assai - Piú animato - Tempo rubato - Tempo I - Poco a poco accelerando sin' al fine - Piú accelerando 00:05
2.Allegro, ma non agitato - Alternativo I:Andante - Tempo I - Alternativo II: Maestoso - Tempo I 11:29
3.Finálé: Presto - Meno presto,tranquillo assai - Piú mosso - Tempo I - Meno presto,tranquillo assai - Piú mosso - Grave,quasi marcia - a Tempo I 20:05
Devich Trió
20:07 😍
Is it true that this masterpiece was composed in my home city Gothenburg?
Second revised edition was finished there. But he began to compose it in 1855 and arrived in Gotheburg 17.10.1856
So do composers just deal with loss by writing piano trios?
Tchaikovsky, a friend. Clara Schumann, a miscarriage. Smetana, a daughter. Brahms, his mother (although that was with a horn).
Are there others?
Dvorák, his mother (op. 65).
@@vanderkarbargenbok558 Another one! What is it with piano trios?...
@@NotJonJost Don't know. Maybe it is an adequate form for expressing mournful feelings. However, there are plenty piano trios without such a relation.
@@vanderkarbargenbok558 I guess the next step is to look into mourning-pieces of other genres, and see if mourning-piano-trios happen in any greater frequency than others. 🤔
Rachmaninov's Trio Elegiaque no. 2 was written in memory of Tchaikovsky.
0:56 toxic from britney spears
0:05
You'd need some big hands to play that piano part. Mine are way too small.
how tall are you?
You can arpeggiate the big chords
My hands are really really small and I just arpeggiate the chords
Actually not so much in this piece. If you are referring to those major 2 or semitones an the end of the chord, they are supposed to play them with one finger. Debussy does this in a couple of pieces. I just started going through a sonatina for bassoon and piano, I will be accompanying, and there are lots of those. They are really fun to play. A double octave of G/A. You play the G/A with the thumb and the other with your pinky. Same with some extended and major 2 in between. Play two notes with one finger.😊 Love playing those rare fingering techniques.
SMETANA PIANO TRIO BEST MOMENTS:
20:06
23:50
24:20
24:51
27:28
28:16
You have no ears. The cello solo is objectively by far the most beautiful part of this composition
27:38
Нет блин Майонез
So sad, this is so silent. I could be louder.
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Who were the 9 lunatics that disliked?
Those are people who simply don't like music.
The better the music, the more they hate it.
De gustibus non disputandum est." I DO like this - quite a lot - but I know some actual musical sophisticates (and one professional composer) who would probably dislike it. Strange...
But to actually make the effort to dislike - it doesn't take a professional 'I dislike this for x, y, and z', it takes an 'oh my god this is so terrible im actually going to scroll over and click this button to express it'. And I just don't understand that. :D
I don't UNDERSTAND them - but (I think) my composer friend would probably call this a work contaminated by "Bruch Poisoning" (referring to Max Bruch, whose work I admire also) - perhaps it's too "emotional". It IS a very 'high intensity" piece, but much Czech music is. I'll keep you posted !
Joe Boyle I don't quite understand the idea of too "emotional"
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13:9
I dunno. I dont feel it. :(
Listen to it few times, you will comprehend it better
The 3rd movement is my favourite. Try that.
You must be numb!
Check out this video about Bedrich Smetana: th-cam.com/video/XnAXfGXZsQM/w-d-xo.html 😍🎶😍
22 seconds in, violin plays a triplet of quavers as a quaver and two semiquavers. I’m out...
Jk!
It seems more like rubato than a misinterpretation of the rhythm...
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21:32
Yes! Exactly!
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