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Beethoven - Complete Piano Trios | Brilliant Classics 93901

Beethoven - Complete Piano Trios

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93901

Barcode: 5028421939018

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 4

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 28th September 2009

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Contents

Artists

Borodin Trio

Artists

Borodin Trio

About

Beethoven arrived in Vienna in 1792 and his reputation as a pianist to be reckoned with spread quickly throughout musical circles. He was happy to exploit this reputation, but he was much less keen on becoming known as a composer. He had several early works from his Bonn years to his credit, and had started and abandoned several concertos and a symphony of which a tantalising unfinished first movement sketch survives.

It was with the three trios Op.1 that he announced to the world that he was also a composer of outstanding abilities. The third of these trios, in C minor, impressed his teacher Haydn greatly, but the older composer was shocked at the daring nature of the music and suggested that Beethoven hold back publication. It is in fact a logical development of papa Haydn’s trios, but it is also unmistakably the voice of Beethoven.

Notable in these trios, and the two mature works of Op.70, is the freedom given to the cello. In the majority of Mozart’s and Haydn’s trios it occupied a subservient, almost continuo role. Beethoven grants it equal status with the piano and violin. The famous atmospheric slow movement of the ‘Ghost’ trio Op.70/1 is from an abandoned opera project ‘Macbeth’ – presumably the Witches scene.

The last trio, Op.97 is dedicated to Beethoven’s friend and pupil Archduke Rudolf. It is a large-scale work, running to 48 minutes, and remains one of the pinnacles of the piano trio repertoire. By the time he completed this work in 1811 Beethoven’s deafness had become so profound that, after a chaotic premiere, he retired from public performance.

Many first rate recordings of Beethoven’s complete trios have become available in recent years, and to these may now be added the cycle by the Borodin Trio….The Borodin Trio plays with great refinement…to its credit the Borodin takes every indicated repeat, even in the large-scaled Archduke. These players are capable of great interpretative subtlety’ - New York Times

Recording made by Chandos in 1984.

Borodin Trio:
- Luba Edlina (piano)
- Rostislav Dubinsky (violin)
- Yuli Turovsky (cello)

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