Baroque- The Eroica Trio

Pasión	The Best of Eroica Trio	Eroica Trio: Dvorak/Shostakovich/Rachmaninov The Eroica Trio has attained a remarkable reputation in a relatively short time. The players are technically excellent; their seamless ensemble, close rapport, and fine balance prove that they started playing together as young students. Their most striking characteristics are the...	Eroica Trio	Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56; Piano Trio, Op. 11
Dreaming	Brahms: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 The Eroica Trio's recording career has been cleverly managed, starting with three albums of relatively lightweight, very well played music before finally arriving at major repertory. Tackling these two Brahms masterpieces, the Eroica proves thoroughly up to the task. They handle ...	Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas	Simply Baroque	An American Journey The Grammy®-Nominated Eroica Trio presents a stirring all-American program for their latest album, An American Journey. Along with new arrangements of Porgy and Bess and West Side Story, the album features the premiere recording of Mark O'Connor's "Poets and Prophets," inspired ...

Great CD
This is one of the few classical CDs I have that I can listen to over and over again. I love it and think it is fantastic. Anyone who likes classical music but doesn't always feel inclined to listen to it should buy this. It's wonderful.

An imaginative and brilliant version of this material
I'll join those who are more favorable about this disc than Edith Eisler. I agree that this is certainly an unconventional approach to Baroque material, but the results are wonderful -- very lush and expressive. The eminent Ms. Eisler expresses an opinion that is not strictly musical concerning the CD's packaging. Query whether this opinion colored her view of the music.

Some excellent baroque music, exquisitely performed
Yes, it's the Eroica Trio! And for those who care, pianist Erica Nickrenz's hair looks just great these days, better than back in 1999 when the trio made this recording. Violinist Adela Pena is as good as ever, and the ringleader of the trio is, as always, cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio. They're versatile, with a fine repertoire. And in this album, they try some interesting Baroque works. I think they handle them superbly. The works by Loeillet, Buxtehude, and Lotti may not be all that familiar even to lovers of classical music. But that's not true for the well-known Albinoni adagio, which the trio plays extremely well. Nor the Vivaldi C-minor sonata, which gets a terrific and spirited performance. Much as I love the Vivaldi work, my favorite piece on this disc is surely the Anne Dudley arrangement of Bach's famous D-minor Chaconne. That Chaconne originally closed the Second Partita for Unaccompanied Violin. But pianists will know it for the versions by Ferruccio Busoni, Leopold Godowsky, and Johannes Brahms. These are challenging arrangements, with maybe Brahms' (for the left hand alone) being the most notorious. Of the piano versions, I like Busoni's the best, and I think Dudley (the composer of the score for "The Full Monty") may have been influenced by this version. In any case, I think Dudley did a great job with her arrangement and I applaud the Eroica Trio for their wonderful performance of it. I hope this performance will stimulate more chamber musicians to learn this arrangement as well.

Beautiful especially to a non-purist--4.5 sounds good to me
I heard the trio in person in Washington--they were awesome. This CD may not be the most "baroque" of CDs, but it's very, very lovely. Yes, they had to adapt the music to a trio & for their instruments. Somehow, I think that's been done before--again, & again...So, I'm not a purist. Interestingly, the Albinoni Adagio (a very famous piece indeed) was not (according to the accompanying booklet) really his--but mostly the work of his biographer Remo Giazotto. I have 3 other recordings of it, & I like this one best. Richard Kapp's "Greatest Hits of 1720" (B00000258Y) is 10:17 minutes long but elegant; Essential Classics' "Baroque Masterpieces" (B00005YQL6) is 8:24; & "The Best of the Eroica Trio" (B0006SSOQS) is 6:57. This version is 6:58. Quite a variety! The "new setting, devised by the group's members" works for me. I only wish they'd try some Telemann & maybe Handel! I like this CD better than "The Best of the Eroica Trio" probably because I like Baroque.

Beautiful & Haunting
I love this cd. If passion were put to music, it would be this cd. I have given it 3 times as gifts and played my own copy so many times it broke in half. I'm going to get a new copy in the morning.