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This completes the Florestan Trio's Beethoven series. Their thoughtfulness throughout has been impressive; their overall style avoids heaviness, keeping the textures light and airy, and giving... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st Nov 2004
Catalogue No: CDA67466
Label: Hyperion
Series: Beethoven Complete Music for Piano Trio
Length: 61 minutes

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Hyperions record of the month for November brings us the triumphant final volume in The Florestan Trios cycle of Beethoven piano trios. The disc opens with the Piano Trio in C minor, Op 1 No 3, Beethovens earliest masterpiece and a work brimming with dark lyric beauty. Radical enough for Haydnperhaps out of jealousyto advise against its publication, this work quickly became one of its composers most popular chamber works. In both the other works on this disc Beethoven responded to the contemporary fashion for sets of variations on popular themes from operas. The Variations in E flat major, Op 44, are based on the hit number from Carl von Dittersdorfs The little red cap, while the last movement of the Piano Trio in B flat major, Op 11, takes as its theme a favourite number from Joseph Weigls comic opera Love at sea. Ever keen to maximize his income, Beethoven switched his original top line from the clarinet to the more popular violin, so creating the charming piano trio we know today. Needless to say, The Florestan Trio is on top form in this new recording. All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set Beethoven: The Complete Music for Piano Trio.

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2010

This completes the Florestan Trio's Beethoven series. Their thoughtfulness throughout has been impressive; their overall style avoids heaviness, keeping the textures light and airy, and giving every phrase individual life and character.
Occasionally the liveliness can seem relentless, but their bubbling vitality is a natural response to Beethoven's inventiveness. And their care for detail makes the early and not fully characteristic Variations in E flat (Op 44) into an absorbing, thoroughly entertaining piece.
It's interesting to compare Op 1 No 3 with the version by the Kempf Trio (BIS), which is finely played but less searching as an interpretation.
The contrast is especially noticeable in the Andante, treated by Kempf and friends as a poetic, hymn-like slow movement, while the Florestans give us a true 18th-century Andante; much faster, and, in places, light and playful.
Op 11 is often more enjoyable in the version with clarinet instead of violin. But this is another Florestan triumph. By modifying the usual robust, jolly character of the outer movements, and introducing more delicate tones, Anthony Marwood can interpret his part in violinistic terms, establishing a close rapport with the cello, yet, at the start of the finale, proving he can be as bright and perky as any clarinettist.

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