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Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 / Sitkovetsky Trio

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Details

Composer
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN
Artist
SITKOVETSKY TRIO
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Mar 06, 2020
Catalog #
BIS-2239
UPC
7318599922393

About

With the three piano trios Op. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven took a genre still largely associated with entertaining salon music, and raised it up to rival the string quartet. The works are innovative in form as well as in content – especially so in the case of the Trio No. 3 in C minor, Beethoven’s trademark key. It is therefore fitting that the Sitkovetsky Trio has chosen this work to open their cycle of the composer’s piano trios. That the C minor trio was pioneering is illustrated by the fact that Haydn, who at the time was Beethoven’s teacher, advised against its publication. He feared that it would not ‘be understood so quickly and easily’ – but the world as Haydn knew it was clearly changing and the trios became a commercial success as well as harbingers of a new musical aesthetic. Some twenty years later, in 1813 when E. T.A. Hoffmann reviewed the two Op. 70 trios, the new era was firmly established, and to Hoffmann the works confirmed ‘how Beethoven carries the Romantic spirit of music deep within his soul’. Between the two complete trios recorded here, the Sitkovetskys include Beethoven’s last contribution to the piano trio genre, the little Allegretto in B flat major, WoO 39. It was composed in June 1812 for Maximiliane Brentano, the ten-year-old daughter of Franz and Antonie Brentano – or, as it says on the title page of the autograph manuscript, ‘for my little friend Maxe Brentano, to encourage her piano playing’.

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro con brio 09:19
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro con brio
    Duration
    09:19
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  2. 2 II. Andante cantabile con variazioni 08:24
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante cantabile con variazioni
    Duration
    08:24
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  3. 3 III. Menuetto: Quasi allegro 03:33
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Menuetto: Quasi allegro
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Prestissimo 07:26
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Prestissimo
    Duration
    07:26
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  5. 5 Allegretto in B-Flat Major, WoO 39 06:02
    Track
    5
    Title
    Allegretto in B-Flat Major, WoO 39
    Duration
    06:02
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  6. 6 I. Poco sostenuto - Allegro ma non troppo 10:17
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Poco sostenuto - Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    10:17
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  7. 7 II. Allegretto 05:28
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Allegretto
    Duration
    05:28
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  8. 8 III. Allegretto ma non troppo 06:55
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Allegretto ma non troppo
    Duration
    06:55
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio
  9. 9 IV. Finale: Allegro 07:38
    Track
    9
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro
    Duration
    07:38
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Sitkovetsky Trio