Complete Music for Piano Trio Vol 4

'With the Florestan Trio's fourth and last Hyperion CD of Beethoven's complete piano trios you enter the Elysian Fields almost straight away … This Hyperion series has already been so rapturously received that the pleasures of this last disc come as no surprise. Even so, the performances' freshness can still amaze'
(The Times)

This triumphant final volume in The Florestan Trio's cycle of Beethoven piano trios opens with the Piano Trio in C minor, Op 1 No 3, Beethoven's earliest masterpiece and a work brimming with dark lyric beauty. Radical enough for Haydn - perhaps out of jealousy - to advise against its publication, this work quickly became one of its composer's most popular chamber works. The other works on this disc are the Variations in E flat major, Op 44 and the Piano Trio in B flat major, Op 11.