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Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios

8/28/2015, 58 Tracks, 4:16:26

Featuring

  • Itzhak Perlman
  • Lynn Harrell
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Beethoven elevated the piano trio to true greatness, being the first composer to give the cello its own independent role within the ensemble.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Beethoven's Op. 70 trios marked a significant aesthetic change, radically departing from his predecessors' style with complex intertwining parts and individual voices for each instrument, placing the three performers on an equal footing.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Perlman-Ashkenazy-Harrell trio follows a tradition of great soloists forming trios, similar to Cortot, Thibaud, and Casals or Heifetz, Rubinstein, and Piatigorsky.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, long-standing friends, had previously made a memorable recording of Beethoven's complete sonatas between 1973 and 1975.

Source: Booklet

Interpretation

The Perlman-Ashkenazy-Harrell trio's performance of the Beethoven trios is characterized by Itzhak Perlman's warm vibrato, Lynn Harrell's expansive sonorities, and Vladimir Ashkenazy's luminous touch, expressing an infectious sense of joy.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album of Beethoven's piano trios was recorded between June 1979 and April 1984 at three different locations: Manhattan Center, New York; No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London; and RCA Studios, New York.

Source: Booklet

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