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Debut (Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM) album cover
Janaki String Trio – Debut
Label: Yarlung Records – YAR53964
Format: Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM
Country: Germany
Released: 2015
Genre: Classical
Style: Classical
Tracklist
A1/1 Movement 1
A1/2 Movement 2
B1/1 Congruity Theory,Obstinate Spaces
B2/2 Anamnesis, Lost In Soquel
Credits
Executive Producer – Elliot Midwood
Notes
Yarlung Records 2015
Producer and Recording Engineer: Bob Attiyeh
Asistant Producer: Jacob Horowitz
Mastering Engineers:Steve Hoffman and Bob Attiyeh
45RPM Vinly Mastering: Bernie Grundman
AKG C24 Microphone: Gearworks Pro audio
Layout:Eron Muckleroy
Cover Photo:Brian Blevins
Barcode: 889211539642
Matrix :651970/45(1)
652970/45(2)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 889211539642
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Dies ist endlich die Ergänzung zu der gekürzten Vinylausgabe (2016) des auf CD bereits 2006 erschienenen Debüt-Albums dieses großartigen Trios: Auf der ursprünglichen CD stand dieses Trio des 27jährigen Beethoven im Kontrast zu drei zeitgenössischen Werken; hier steht es nun isoliert, was freilich der fabelhaften Interpretation des jungen, hoch engagierten Ensembles keinen Abbruch tut. Die Musiker gestalten das letzte der drei Trios op. 9, das einerseits an die Wiener Klassik vor ihm (es gibt sogar etliche ausgesprochen mozarteske Momente) anknüpft, andererseits deutlich auf spätere Hauptwerke hinweist (schon durch die Verwendung der "Beethoven-Tonart" C-Moll), mit einer Lebendigkeit, als sei es gerade erst geschrieben worden. Wer die LP mit dem Panderecki- und dem Barraba-Trio besitzt, zwischen denen das Beethoven-Werk auf dem ursprünglichen Album plaziert war, darf jenes gerne mal reproduzieren; der Effekt ist erstaunlich! Aber auch für sich genommen darf man dieses auch klanglich fabelhafte Album als kammermusikalische Sternstunde verbuchen. (2020, rec. 2006)
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180-gram 45 RPM debut album reissue
Lacquers cut by Bernie Grundman
Janaki String trio from executive producer Elliot Midwood
One of Yarlung Record's iconic recordings!
"In this, the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birthday, Yarlung Records offers a recording worthy of the master, a delectation from the Janaki String Trio that was originally recorded in 2006 in Zipper Hall. The sonics are as inviting as the playing." — Music = 10/11; Sound = 10/11 — Ty Webb, AnalogPlanet.com. Read the whole review here.
"...reminiscent of RCA Living Stereo in its golden age, or Mercury Records at its height. Yarlung's sound is liquid and transparent, just as if you were sitting in the concert halls with superb acoustics, where these recordings are made." — Mori Shima, Stereo Sound, Japan
The three members of the Janaki Trio — violinist Serena McKinney, violist Katie Kadarauch and cellist Arnold Choi — found common cause while students at the Colburn Music School in Los Angeles, and the quality of their performances there won first recognition in the 2005 International Coleman Foundation Award. Only a year later the Trio had moved skyward, with New York's much-coveted Concert Artists Guild Award.
"Now, as inevitable and delightful consequence, they are ready with the first recorded evidence of their high skills — and also, in the breadth of this program, of their awareness of the broad scope of the musical world they are now out to conquer." — Alan Rich
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Description
AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head
Yarlung Records - YAR53966-376 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue
Cut by Bernie Grundman - Limited Edition - Pressed at Pallas in Germany
Analog Planet Rated 10/10 Music, 10/10 Sonics!This crack ensemble was in its matutinal hours during this performance, but it remains a treat to listen to this recording. Yarlung, you could even say, with this LP has hit a hole in one. Janaki String Trio's Young Beethoven Is Musical and Sonic Gold
"...reminiscent of RCA Living Stereo in its golden age, or Mercury Records at its height. Yarlung's sound is liquid and transparent, just as if you were sitting in the concert halls with superb acoustics, where these recordings are made." — Mori Shima, Stereo Sound, Japan
A sonic and technical tour-de-force
The recording transports me into the venue. My listening room dimensions do not define the soundstage. I hear the space the musicians are occupying in the hall. Low-level information and detail are presented on a background alive with reverberant cues. I 'feel' the space. The LP, pressed by Pallas in Germany, is totally silent in replay. No clicks, no pops thru an entire side providing the foundation for the extreme transparency. The musicians play 'within themselves' combining discipline and technical mastery into a cohesive interpretation rich in tonal color, textures, and image specificity.
Happy 250th Birthday Beethoven! Your music sounds fresh, exciting and inspiring as it must have when you were alive and writing it in your young prime. Amazing to have created this magnificent trio when you were only 27 years old.
Beethoven's Trios -- he wrote four in all -- are early works, but already in the C Minor work on this LP the tread of the dramatic master is apparent. Just the opening, a dark, menacing melody that shows up again in the great Opus 131 Quartet of many years later, tells us that. C Minor was Beethoven's most dramatic tonality throughout his lifetime; even though this early trio tends to slither into happier C Major tones rather readily, the dark shadows are never completely out of earshot. - Alan Rich
Janaki String Trio "won the Coleman Chamber Music Competition and the Concert Artists Guild International Competition." And writing about Janaki's Carnegie debut, Allan Kozinn wrote the Janaki musicians were "fresh and energetic in Beethoven's Trio." - Allan Kozinn, New York Times
This music sounds fresh and energizing just as it must have for Beethoven and his first lucky audiences.
Even Beethoven, who liked to take occasional shots at the performers of his works by noting that they were mere drones expressing his genius, might have been impressed by the rich and warm and transparent sound of this album, one that is pretty much guaranteed to satisfy all but the most curmudgeonly of listeners. To paraphrase the venerable Dr. Johnson, if you're tired of this music, then you're tired of life.
Recorded in Zipper Hall at Colburn School, February 2006
Mastering Engineers: Steve Hoffman & Bob Attiyeh
45rpm vinyl mastering by Bernie Grundman
Made in Germany
Musicians
Serena McKinney violin
Katie Kadarauch viola
Arnold Choi cello
Selections
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
STRING TRIO IN C MINOR OPUS 9, NO. 3
I. Allegro con spirito
II. Adagio con espressione
III. Scherzo - Allegro molto e vivace
IV. Finale - Presto
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