Format: SACD
Barcode: 0608917277821
Releasedate: 01-06-18
- Three exuberant Trios coming from Beethoven’s youth
- Gramophone on the first volume: The overwhelming quality of this new disc is a quite irresistible freshness. Young man’s music, played with an inquisitive spirit, a spring-like clarity and a daredevil verve.
Chamber music arrangements of symphonies were very common in the late 18th and early 19th century, and it is probably true that a large proportion of the people who were familiar with the symphonic repertoire at the time were so because of them. The Second Symphony is the only one for which Beethoven himself produced an arrangement, although there is evidence that his student Ferdinand Ries did the bulk of the work, with Beethoven adding the finishing touches.
Of the three piano trios published under op. 1, the second announces its pretentions to the symphonic genre earlier than its siblings and has several common points with the Second Symphony that was written ten years later.
The Allegretto in E-flat, Hess 48, probably was one of the first works for piano trio that Beethoven wrote, dating back to the early 1790s. Its form is a short, but humorous conversation between three different instruments.
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1Piano Trio in G Major, Op. 1 No. 2Adagio - Allegro vivace11:37
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2Piano Trio in G Major, Op. 1 No. 2Largo con espressione09:44
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3Piano Trio in G Major, Op. 1 No. 2Scherzo. Allegro03:59
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4Piano Trio in G Major, Op. 1 No. 2Finale. Presto07:51
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5Piano Trio after the Symphony in D Major, Op. 36Adagio molto - Allegro con brio12:56
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6Piano Trio after the Symphony in D Major, Op. 36Larghetto11:34
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7Piano Trio after the Symphony in D Major, Op. 36Scherzo. Allegro - Trio04:41
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8Piano Trio after the Symphony in D Major, Op. 36Allegro molto06:54
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9Allegretto in E-flat Major, Hess 4803:18