Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 2

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This is a delight: sprightly, well-articulated playing which bounds with vitality. The Archduke starts in an almost improvisatory spirit...The energy of the performance is driven by the pianist... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Sep 2023
Catalogue No: BIS2539
Label: BIS
Length: 80 minutes

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November 2023

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November 2023

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Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 2 in G major, Op. 1 No. 2

Work length34:59

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$11.60

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Alexander Sitkovetsky, Isang Enders, Wu Qian

I. Adagio - Allegro vivace

Track length12:16

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II. Largo con espressione

Track length10:35

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III. Scherzo

Track length3:47

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IV. Finale

Track length8:21

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Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 7 in B flat Major, Op. 97 'Archduke'

Work length45:18

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$14.15

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Alexander Sitkovetsky, Isang Enders, Wu Qian

I. Allegro moderato

Track length13:47

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II. Scherzo

Track length11:09

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Iii. Andante cantabile, ma però con moto

Track length12:57

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IV. Allegro moderato - Presto

Track length7:25

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With the three piano trios, Op. 1, Ludwig van Beethoven took a genre still largely associated with salon music and raised it up to rival the string quartet. The works are innovative in form as well as in content. From this collection, the Trio in G major, Op. 1 No. 2, appears as a cheerful and engaging work. While it has been said that one could discern ‘the master’s happy youth […] still unclouded, light and frivolous’, hints of ‘the deep seriousness and tender intimacy that would follow’ can also be found. Knowing very well that well-placed dedications could result in princely rewards, Beethoven dedicated his Piano Trio in B flat major, Op. 97, to the Archduke Rudolph of Austria, hence its nickname, ‘Archduke’ Trio. With this work, Beethoven bade farewell to the genre with arguably his most important contribution, a trio of which a critic wrote that in it ‘genius, art, nature, truth, spirit, originality, invention, execution, taste, power, fire, imagination, loveliness, deep feeling and lively jesting entwine in sisterly harmony’. After the success of its Ravel and Saint-Saëns trios recording [BIS2219], the Sitkovetsky Trio presents the eagerly awaited second instalment of its series devoted to Beethoven’s piano trios.

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November 2023

This is a delight: sprightly, well-articulated playing which bounds with vitality. The Archduke starts in an almost improvisatory spirit...The energy of the performance is driven by the pianist Wu Qian, absolutely attentive to all of Beethoven’s quirky markings and sudden sforzandos.

November 2023

Few could fail to be moved by the Sitkovetsky Trio’s tenderness and concentrated intensity...For poetry, colouristic imagination and, not least, an infectious sense of shared enjoyment, these performances can hold their own against any rivals.

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