Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 3

Trio con Brio Copenhagen continue their exploration of Beethoven's Piano Trios with one early and one late middle-period work. The Piano Trio op. 1 no. 3 is an explosive composition in the portentous key of C minor, while the beautiful, serene "Archduke" Trio in B flat op. 97 was his final work for these three instruments, written in 1810-11.

Featuring

Soo-Jin Hong
Soo-Kyung Hong
Jens Elvekjær
Trio con Brio Copenhagen
Ludwig van Beethoven

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Instruments

The Trio con Brio Copenhagen performs on notable instruments: Soo-Jin Hong plays a 17th-century violin by Andrea Guarneri, Soo-Kyung Hong plays a Grancino cello, and Jens Elvekjaer is Denmark's first Steinway Artist.

Performer Biography

Trio con Brio Copenhagen, founded in Vienna in 1999, has won numerous international piano trio competitions, including the ARD (Munich) and Vittorio Gui (Florence).

Composer Biography

Beethoven studied under Haydn, who was 60 and the most highly recognized composer of his age, when he moved to Vienna in 1792.

Composer Biography

Beethoven's Piano Trio in B flat major, Op.97 'The Archduke', marks his final public performance as a pianist in April 1814, due to his increasing deafness.

Composition History

Haydn, Beethoven's teacher, did not believe that Beethoven's Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1 No.3, would be well-received by audiences.

Performer Biography

Trio con Brio Copenhagen was the first ensemble to receive Denmark's prestigious 'P2 Artists Prize' in January 2015, performing Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Compositional Technique

The Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1 No.3, is in C minor, which later became Beethoven's preferred key for expressing stormy and heroic themes, notably in his Symphony No. 5 'Fate'.