Beethoven Trio Bonn - Beethoven- Ghost Trio & Triple Concerto (2020/2023) [Official Digital Download]

In a series of 3 CDs, the Beethoven Trio Bonn explores the confrontation between one of Beethoven’s standard works for piano trio with a further “house music” arrangement of one of his orchestral works. More than providing an interesting pairing, the Beethoven Trio Bonn was keen on interpreting an original work for piano trio alongside an arrangement of an orchestral work “downsized” to piano trio format. This new concept delivers surprising, unforeseen results.

Composers and publishers in Beethoven’s day sought to indulge the pleasures of the middle class: dozens of arrangements and transcriptions of orchestral works were in wide circulation for domestic use. Haydn, Mozart and many others had always tried to provide access to the wonders of symphonic music for those members of the population who could not gain entrance to the grand concerts of the upper classes.

Up to the 1930s, music publishers continued to commission composers to arrange and transcribe symphonies and other orchestral works, in order to make them readily available as chamber music; no composer found the task too lowly, since such work was a good source of steady income.

TRACKLIST

1. Beethoven Trio Bonn - I. Allegro vivace e con brio
2. Beethoven Trio Bonn - II. Largo assai ed espressivo
3. Beethoven Trio Bonn - III. Presto
4. Beethoven Trio Bonn - I. Allegro (Arr.for Piano)
5. Beethoven Trio Bonn - II. Largo (Arr.for Piano)
6. Beethoven Trio Bonn - III. Rondo alla polacca (Arr.for Piano)



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