January 13, 2026, 11:30 a.m
On what is now their fifth CD, the French trio Karénine plays Tchaikovsky’s central work op. 50 and surprisingly combines the expansive piece with two individual movements. An arrangement of the “Andante appassionato” from Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto concludes the CD – as a devotional encore, so to speak. The new album also opens with a slow movement, the Adagio from Rimsky-Korsakov’s C minor Trio. The unusual dramaturgy reveals inner, tonal connections that are immediately noticeable when listening. The Trio Karénine was founded in 2009, but the current line-up is comparatively new, as violinist Julien Dieudegard only joined in 2023. He turns the ensemble into a world-class trio.
The second current recording in this program contains all of Frederic Chopin’s songs on 20 tracks. Some of them are not intended for the concert stage but only for private use. They are intimate, extremely diverse miniatures, sometimes strongly rooted in folk music, sometimes experimental and innovative. The Czech-Swiss soprano Martina Janková not only has an international career in concert and musical theater, she teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts and is currently writing her dissertation on the subject of “Song as an identity-forming phenomenon”. Janková interprets flawlessly and with a beguiling timbre, never “safely”, always with maximum expression. Pianist Ivo Kahánek is a reliable partner on the piano.
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Current recordings:
“Tchaikovsky”
Performers: Trio Karénine
Label: Mirare
“Chopin Intimate“
Performed by: Martina Janková (Soprano), Ivo Kahánek (Piano)
Label: Radioservis
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Composer: Peter Ilyich Tschaikowsky
Title: Trio op.50, 2nd movement, Var.1
Performers: Trio Karenine
Soloist: Paloma Kouider, piano
Soloist: Julien Dieudegard, violin
Soloist: Louis Rodde, Violoncello
Length: 00:50 min
Label: Mirare 784
Composer: Nikolaj Rimsky-Korsakoff
Title: Adagio from the Trio in Amoll: Beginning
Performers: Trio Karenine
Soloist: Paloma Kouider, piano
Soloist: Julien Dieudegard, violin
Soloist: Louis Rodde, Violoncello
Length: 00:28 min
Label: Mirare 784
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tschaikowsky
Title: Trio op.50, 2nd movement, Var.9-11
Performers: Trio Karenine
Soloist: Paloma Kouider, piano
Soloist: Julien Dieudegard, violin
Soloist: Louis Rodde, Violoncello
Length: 04:00 min
Label: Mirare 784
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Lyricist, text source: Stefan Witwicki
Album: Chopin Intimate
Titel: Where he likes
Soloist: Martina Janková, Gesang
Soloist: Ivo Kahánek, Klavier
Length: 01:13 min
Label: Radioservis / CR1269-2
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Lyricist, text source: Stefan Witwicki
Album: Chopin Intimate
Title: Wish
Soloist: Martina Janková, Gesang
Soloist: Ivo Kahánek, Klavier
Length: 01:39 min
Label: Radioservis / CR1269-2
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Textdichter/Textdichterin, Textquelle: Ignacy Maciejowski
Album: Chopin Intimate
Title: Sakiez Kwiaty
Soloist: Martina Janková, Gesang
Length: 01:37 min
Label: Radioservis / CR1269-2
Composer: Frederic Chopin
Textdichter/Textdichterin, Textquelle: Bohdan Zaleski
Album: Chopin Intimate
Title: There Is What It Takes
Soloist: Martina Janková, Gesang
Soloist: Ivo Kahánek, Klavier
Length: 02:52 min
Label: Radioservis / CR1269-2
Composer: Nikolaj Rimsky-Korsakoff
Title: Adagio from the Trio in Amoll: Excerpt
Performers: Trio Karenine
Soloist: Paloma Kouider, piano
Soloist: Julien Dieudegard, violin
Soloist: Louis Rodde, Violoncello
Length: 03:17 min
Label: Mirare 784
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tschaikowsky
Title: Trio op.50, 2nd movement, Var.8 . Fuga
Performers: Trio Karenine
Soloist: Paloma Kouider, piano
Soloist: Julien Dieudegard, violin
Soloist: Louis Rodde, Violoncello
Length: 02:20 min
Label: Mirare 784
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tschaikowsky
Title: Trio op.50, 2nd movement, Var.11 – Moderato
Performers: Trio Karenine
Soloist: Paloma Kouider, piano
Soloist: Julien Dieudegard, violin
Soloist: Louis Rodde, Violoncello
Length: 02:30 min
Label: Mirare 784
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