Trios avec piano (Volume 2)

Description

For this second volume of their complete Beethoven piano trios, the Busch Trio illustrates the great variety that the composer was able to draw from an ensemble of just three instruments. The Trio in G major, begun in 1793, is the second of the three published in Vienna as Opus 1. The Trio in E-flat major, WoO 38, was written in 1790-1791 in Bonn: it has the particularity of having three movements in the same key and lacking a slow movement. The charming Allegretto in E-flat major was written by a young Beethoven in the midst of experimentation. The Allegretto in B-flat major, WoO 39, takes us forward to 1812, the era of the famous "Archduke Trio." Finally, the Variations in E-flat major, Op. 44, are a series of variations on arias from a little-known opera by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf. "In working, rehearsing, and playing Beethoven's works, we cannot help but be overwhelmed by joy, courage, love of life and humanity," conclude the musicians of the Busch Trio.