Beethoven: The Piano Trios & Triple Concerto

Beethoven: The Piano Trios & Triple Concerto

NI 1709 (Nimbus Records, CD, 4 discs)

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FIRST RELEASE (7 March 2025)

Playing time: 67'59"/73'24"/63'58"/76'46" - TT 282'07"
Tracks: 8 + 10 + 8 + 7
℗ 2025 Wyastone Estate Limited
© 2025 Wyastone Estate Limited
Country of manufacture: United Kingdom
Received: 16 December 2024
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Trio Shaham-Erez-Wallfisch:
Hagai Shaham, violin
Arnon Erez, piano
Raphael Wallfisch, cello

Orchestra of the Swan (CD4 tracks 5-7)
Eckehard Stier, conductor (CD4 tracks 5-7)

Ludwig van Beethoven:

CD1

1 Allegretto (Piano Trio in B flat, WoO 39)

2-5 Piano Trio in E flat, Op 1 No 1

6-8 Piano Trio in D, Op 70 No 1 'Ghost'

CD2

1-4 Piano Trio in G, Op 1 No 2

5-7 Piano Trio in B flat, Op 11

8-10 'Kakadu' Variations, Op 121a

CD3

1-4 Piano Trio in C minor, Op 1 No 3

5-8 Piano Trio in E flat, Op 70 No 2

CD4

1-4 Piano Trio in B Flat, Op 97 'Archduke'

5-7 Triple Concerto

Trio Shaham-Erez-Wallfisch was founded in 2009 and comprises three of the finest international instrumentalists performing today. Playing chamber music together at the Pablo Casals Prades Festival, Hagai Shaham and Raphael Wallfisch recognised an immediate musical synergy. Arnon Erez joined them for trio concerts in Lucerne and the Netherlands later that year and the Trio Shaham-Erez-Wallfisch was established. Since its formation, the trio has been invited numerous times to prestigious chamber music series at venues such as London's Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Rotterdam De Doellen and Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. The Trio often appears in Spain, the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Israel and Canada, and was invited by the Wigmore Hall to present the complete Beethoven piano trios in 2020.

The monumental 'Archduke' Trio Op 97 represents Beethoven at the peak of his creativity in the genre. Sketches for all four movements of this 'symphony scored for a trio' are included in a sketchbook of 1810 containing also drafts for the Egmont music and the String Quartet in F minor Op 95 ... Three years elapsed before the work's first public performance, by Beethoven, Schuppanzigh and Linke, on 11 April 1814 as part of a charity concert in the hall of the 'Hotel zum Römischen Kaiser' in Vienna. This concert sounded the death knell of Beethoven's public career as a pianist, owing to his profound deafness ... Although Haydn and Mozart contributed much to the piano trio's evolution, Beethoven breathed new life and dynamism into the medium, expanded its size and scale and enriched its thematic and tonal substance. His trios provided a benchmark for the further flowering of the genre in the nineteenth century, as exemplified in the works of Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms and Dvořák.

 

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