Beethoven: Ghost Trio & Triple Concerto

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The opening movement of the Ghost Trio is tautly played and tightly argued...The central movement that gives the work its nickname is launched with truly chilling sounds from violin and cello...The... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2020 More…

Release Date: 1st May 2020
Catalogue No: AVI8553108
Label: Avi Music
Length: 58 minutes

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Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 5 in D Major, Op. 70 No. 1

Work length24:06

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Beethoven Trio Bonn

I. Allegro vivace e con brio

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II. Largo assai ed espressivo

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III. Presto

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Beethoven: Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Cello in C major, Op. 56

Work length34:35

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Beethoven Trio Bonn

I. Allegro (Arr.for Piano)

Track length17:07

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II. Largo (Arr.for Piano)

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III. Rondo alla polacca (Arr.for Piano)

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In a series of three CDs, the Beethoven Trio Bonn explores the confrontation between one of Beethoven's standard works for piano trio with a further "house music" arrangement of one of his orchestral works. More than providing an interesting pairing, the Beethoven Trio Bonn was keen on interpreting an original work for piano trio alongside an arrangement of an orchestral work "downsized" to piano trio format. This new concept delivers surprising, unforeseen results. Volume one includes the "Ghost" Trio and an arrangement of the Triple Concerto.

Composers and publishers in Beethoven's day sought to indulge the pleasures of the middle class: dozens of arrangements and transcriptions of orchestral works were in wide circulation for domestic use. Haydn, Mozart and many others had always tried to provide access to the wonders of symphonic music for those members of the population who could not gain entrance to the grand concerts of the upper classes.

Up to the 1930s, music publishers continued to commission composers to arrange and transcribe symphonies and other orchestral works, in order to make them readily available as chamber music; no composer found the task too lowly, since such work was a good source of steady income.

When we hear Beethoven's Triple Concerto performed by a piano trio, as on this CD, we are full of admiration for these three musicians who play all the additional orchestra notes apart from their own virtuoso solo parts. The piano has the toughest job of them all!

Still, the resulting blend is thoroughly satisfying. Beethoven's Triple Concerto, arranged for piano trio by German composer Friedrich Eduard Wilsing (1909-1893), sounds entirely convincing; it still sports the same rhythmic drive as Beethoven's original work particularly thanks to BTB's refreshing, energetic playing in an interpretation they have thought out with care.

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October 2020

The opening movement of the Ghost Trio is tautly played and tightly argued...The central movement that gives the work its nickname is launched with truly chilling sounds from violin and cello...The Triple Concerto, though, is something else again. The three solo lines and complex orchestral backdrop are ingeniously distilled by Friedrich Eduard Wilsing (1809-93), a Dortmund music teacher, into a tour de force of virtuosity and contrapuntal intricacy.

Beethoven: Ghost Trio & Triple Concerto

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