As every year at the start of the Spannungen Festival (2014 is the 17th year), there is a taster CD album available, taken from the vast festival program of the previous year.

Since the start of the Festival, Antonín Dvóřak has always been a landmark composer and to our surprise we discovered that one work has never been selected for an album release: the Dumky Piano Trio No.4, which is now available in an ideal setting with Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff and close friend Lars Vogt.
 
Both beautiful lyricisms and noble material of themes and tunes were a surprise to the audience when listening to the six (out of 12 in total) pieces of the cycle Zypressen, the four perfect string players conducting magic moments in the room of this lovely building, portraying Dvóřak's lyrical side.
 
Without the next generation, Heimbach would not continue as it has. In the hydro electric plant building, the pianist Aaron Pilsan, the cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Alissa Margulis (violin) played Shostakovich’s young and exciting Piano Trio No.1 with spontaneous drive and verve.
 
Live recordings from June 5 and 7, 2014.

Contents:
- Dvorak: Piano Trio No.4 in E minor, Op.90 'Dumky'
Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Lars Vogt (piano)

- Dvorak: Cypresses for string quartet, B152
Alissa Margulis and Byol Kang (violins), Tatjana Masurenko (viola), Gustav Rivinius (cello)
 
- Shostakovich: Piano Trio No.1 in C minor, Op.8
Alissa Margulis (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello), Aaron Pilsan (piano)