Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Trio Goya
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN0822
Release: 2018
Size: 1.53 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Piano Trio No. 1 in Eb major, Op. 1 No. 1
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Adagio cantabile
03. III. Scherzo. Allegro assai
04. IV. Finale. Presto
Piano Trio No. 2 in G major, Op. 1 No. 2
05. I. Adagio – Allegro vivace
06. II. Largo con espressione
07. III. Scherzo. Allegro
08. IV. Finale. Presto
CD 02
Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 1 No. 3
01. I. Allegro con brio
02. II. Andante cantabile con variazioni
03. III. Menuetto. Quasi allegro
04. IV. Finale. Prestissimo
In this new Chaconne release, Trio Goya offers unique accounts of Beethoven’s early piano trios, revealing on period instruments and in the magical acoustic of the Britten-Pears Auditorium at Aldeburgh’s Snape Maltings the extraordinary range of colours and narratives that these pieces suggest. Beethoven’s Opus 1 features amongst Trio Goya’s central repertoire, played regularly in the UK’s most prestigious venues and beyond. After a recent Wigmore Hall concert, Early Music Today wrote that ‘Trio Goya sent us home spinning on the delights and laughter of early Beethoven. His piano trio opus 1 No. 1 frothed and bubbled down the finale’s theme, the musicians swept along by their own hell for- leather, immaculately kept tempo.’ These pieces mark a kind of beginning in Beethoven’s career. They were indeed planned and executed, over a period of two years, with unprecedented care and skill; they mark the start of a new creative period for the young genius, which is distinct from the younger Bonn years and is fully deserving of the label ‘first maturity’ conferred by the musicologist Lewis Lockwood.