Van Baerle Trio - Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios, Vol. 1 (2017) [Hi-Res]
Artist: Van Baerle Trio
Title: Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios, Vol. 1
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Challenge Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 44.1kHz +booklet
Total Time: 01:19:50
Total Size: 325 / 687 mb
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TracklistTitle: Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios, Vol. 1
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Challenge Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 44.1kHz +booklet
Total Time: 01:19:50
Total Size: 325 / 687 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
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01. Piano Trio No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 1: I. Allegro
02. Piano Trio No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 1: II. Adagio cantabile
03. Piano Trio No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 1: III. Scherzo. Allegro assai
04. Piano Trio No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 1: IV. Finale. Presto
05. Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 1: I. Allegro con brio
06. Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 1: II. Andante cantabile con variazioni
07. Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 1: III. Menuetto. Quasi Allegro
08. Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 1: IV. Finale. Prestissimo
09. Piano Trio in B-Flat Major, Op. 11: I. Allegro con brio
10. Piano Trio in B-Flat Major, Op. 11: II. Adagio
11. Piano Trio in B-Flat Major, Op. 11: III. Tema : Pria ch'io l'impegno. Allegretto
This recording of Beethoven Trios follows the Van Baerle Trio’s album dedicated to Mendelssohn’s piano trios, and their debut CD, which featured works by Saint-Sa ns, Loevendie and Ravel, received an Edison Award in 2013.
Beethoven’s primary reason for settling in Vienna in 1792 was to study with Joseph Haydn. Beethoven’s three Piano Trios op. 1 were the first compositions that he deemed important enough to give an opus number and were dedicated to Prince Karl Lichnowsky, one of his patrons. The trios contain four movements rather than the three that had been traditional in this genre. Although changes from major to minor had been common in the music of previous generations, where they would normally apply to just the last chord, Beethoven employs this technique more extensively.
Beethoven dedicated the Trio op. 11 to Maria Wilhelmine Countess of Thun- Hohenstein. He tried to make it a particularly attractive publication for the Viennese public: the trio could be performed with a clarinet instead of a violin, a flexible approach to instrumentation to increase its marketability. In addition, the last movement consists of a theme from Joseph Weigl’s comic opera L’amor marinaro, followed by a series of variations. At the time when Beethoven wrote this trio, Weigl’s opera was very popular in Vienna.
The Van Baerle Trio was founded in 2004 by the pianist Hannes Minnaar, violinist Maria Milstein and cellist Gideon den Herder. The name of the trio refers to the street where the three musicians met during their studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.