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…these are really impressive and vibrant accounts that bring out all the abrupt contrasts that so shocked the works' Beethoven first audiences… If you prefer these pieces on period instruments,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Jan 2008
Catalogue No: HMC901955
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 70 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

February 2007

Chamber Choice

Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 1 No. 3

Work length28:00

$4.60

$7.15

Andreas Staier, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Daniel Sepec

I. Allegro con brio

Track length9:20

$1.20

$1.95

II. Andante cantabile con variazione

Track length7:20

$1.20

$1.95

III. Menuetto (Quasi Allegro) - Trio

Track length3:42

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Finale (Prestissimo)

Track length7:38

$1.20

$1.95

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

Work length26:44

$3.80

$5.85

Daniel Sepec, Andreas Staier, Jean-Guihen Queyras

I. Allegro vivace con brio

Track length10:20

$1.40

$1.95

II. Largo assai ed espressivo

Track length8:27

$1.20

$1.95

III. Presto

Track length7:57

$1.20

$1.95

Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Piano Trio in G Major, Op. 65

Work length15:28

$3.20

$4.55

Daniel Sepec, Andreas Staier, Jean-Guihen Queyras

I. Allegro con spirito

Track length7:26

$1.20

$1.95

II. Andante grazioso

Track length4:08

$1.00

$1.30

III. Rondo (Vivace assai e scherzando)

Track length3:54

$1.00

$1.30

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Although they were the earliest works that the young Beethoven thought worthy to feature in his catalogue, the Trios Op.1 were far from being his first compositions. But it was in them that he first asserted his ambitions and revealed his imaginative powers. Nearly 15 years separate them from the famous 'Ghost' Trio, one of the composer's mature masterpieces. Our three performers have judiciously coupled these works with a remarkable trio by Hummel, one of Beethoven's principal rivals.

Andreas Staier has pursued a career as a freelance soloist and has earned an outstanding reputation as both

harpsichordist and fortepianist. Daniel Sepec devotes an increasing amount of his time to the Baroque violin. Hence he frequently appears as guest leader with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Camerata Academica Salzburg, and Camerata Bern, and as a soloist with the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood. In 2004 he founded the Arcanto Quartet, together with Jean-Guihen Queyras, Antje Weithaas and Tabea Zimmermann.Their recording of Bartok Quartets was a Gramophone Editor's Choice in August 2007.

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February 2008

…these are really impressive and vibrant accounts that bring out all the abrupt contrasts that so shocked the works' Beethoven first audiences… If you prefer these pieces on period instruments, you're unlikely to find them better done… Beside Beethoven, Hummel's G major Trio is small beer, though its scherzo-like- finale is fun, and Staier wittily invokes the piano's built-in percussion effect for the concluding chords.

March 2008

This bold juxtaposition of Beethoven and Hummel resurrects a real-life musical rivalry… Equally bold are the timbres displayed by this vividly imaginative trio of period instrumentalists.

Beethoven - Piano Trios

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