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Release Date: Tuesday 7 July 2009
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Haydn's misgivings about Beethoven's third piano trio were not entirely unfounded: symphonic in conception, it was a breakthrough work-Beethoven's first masterpiece and eventually one of his most popular chamber pieces-and retains its power to amaze to this day. His Symphony No. 2 also broke through Classical conventions, a scherzo replacing the customary minuet. In the composer's own arrangement for piano trio it loses none of its impact. The youthful Allegretto in E flat is, in effect, a minuet without the expected trio section.
Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 (arr. for piano trio)
Allegretto in E flat major, Hess 48