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All the Sitkovetsky Trio’s positive attributes... are on display in the high spirits of the Ghost’s finale and in the effervescent outer movements of Op 1 No 1. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2024 More…

Release Date: 9th Aug 2024
Catalogue No: BIS2699
Label: BIS
Length: 60 minutes

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

Work length28:58

Sitkovetsky Trio

I. Allegro vivace e con brio

Track length10:03

II. Largo assai ed espressivo

Track length10:41

III. Presto

Track length8:14

Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 1 in Eb major, Op. 1 No. 1

Work length29:42

Sitkovetsky Trio

I. Allegro

Track length9:42

II. Adagio cantabile

Track length7:26

III. Scherzo. Allegro assai

Track length4:47

IV. Finale. Presto

Track length7:47

Beethoven: Schöne Minka, ich muss scheiden, WoO 158a No. 16 (Arr. for Piano, Violin and Cello by Isang Enders)

Work length2:09

Sitkovetsky Trio

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With the three piano trios published in 1795, Op. 1, Ludwig van Beethoven took a genre still largely associated with salon music and raised it up to rival the string quartet. In these works, Beethoven saw the true start of his creative journey.

Likely to have been composed (at least in a preliminary version) before his move from his native Bonn to Haydn and Mozart’s Vienna, the Trio in E flat major, Op. 1 No. 1, reveals a composer who, while still drawing inspiration from his illustrious elders, begins to display his own witty personality marked by impish, sometimes tigerish playfulness.

Composed about fifteen years later, the two Op. 70 trios ‘raise the genre to a level from which the later piano trio literature could move forward’ in the words of Beethoven specialist Lewis Lockwood. Indeed, they clearly made a mark on the later trios of Schumann, Brahms and Tchaikovsky. The first of them, played here, is the more significant. Its nickname, ‘Ghost’, refers to its unsettling central movement characterized by ‘horror’ writing, displaying a range of chilling effects.

This Sitkovetsky Trio recording concludes with an arrangement by the trio’s cellist, Isang Enders, of a catchy and eloquently simple Ukrainian Cossack tune from a collection of Beethoven’s folk song arrangements that Schubert would no doubt have loved.

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September 2024

All the Sitkovetsky Trio’s positive attributes... are on display in the high spirits of the Ghost’s finale and in the effervescent outer movements of Op 1 No 1.

August 2024

whether or not the mood is tremulous melodrama or prancing gaiety, pianist Alexander Sitkovetsky, cellist Isang Enders and pianist Wu Qian project the notes with the precision, flair, and conversational intimacy that all well-wrought chamber music demands...BIS’s recording as usual is warm, crisp, and lively enough to make you feel the players are weaving their magic just a few feet away.

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