Beethoven: Three Piano Trios, Op.1

 
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Three Piano Trios, Op.1
Trio Goya

[ Chandos Chaconne / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 26 July 2018

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In this new Chaconne release, Trio Goya offers unique accounts of Beethoven's early piano trios, revealing on period instruments and in the magical acoustic of the Britten-Pears Auditorium at Aldeburgh's Snape Maltings the extraordinary range of colours and narratives that these pieces suggest.

Beethoven's Opus 1 features amongst Trio Goya's central repertoire, played regularly in the UK's most prestigious venues and beyond. After a recent Wigmore Hall concert, Early Music Today wrote that 'Trio Goya sent us home spinning on the delights and laughter of early Beethoven. His piano trio opus 1 No. 1 frothed and bubbled down the finale's theme, the musicians swept along by their own hell-for-leather, immaculately kept tempo.'

These pieces mark a kind of beginning in Beethoven's career. They were indeed planned and executed, over a period of two years, with unprecedented care and skill; they mark the start of a new creative period for the young genius, which is distinct from the younger Bonn years and is fully deserving of the label 'first maturity' conferred by the musicologist Lewis Lockwood.

"On fortepiano, Maggie Cole runs away with this set, playing with remarkable dexterity and grace,,, Trio 2 is practically a master class in getting as much personality as possible out of a fortepiano… II is glorious, and IV is a dance for three instruments. The group is at its best in the C-minor Trio, often considered the strongest of the three. The first movement is furious, II is a hymn, and IV feels like Beethoven is emerging from his chrysalis" American Record Guide

"Immaculate and tasteful playing on perfectly chosen instruments" The Strad

Tracks:

Trio, Op.1 No.1
in E flat major • in Es-Dur • en mi bémol majeur

Trio, Op.1 No.2
in G major • in G-Dur • en sol majeur

Trio, Op.1 No.3
in C minor • in c-Moll • en ut mineur