If you know and love Beethoven like the back of your hand, you'll have to hear this disc. For one thing, it has the composer's own rarely recorded arrangement for piano trio of his Quintet for piano and winds, Op. 16. Home chamber music performance was apparently all the rage in early nineteenth century bourgeois households, and to forestall someone else getting royalties that should be his, Beethoven occasionally turned out his own arrangements of his most popular works. In the case of Opus 16, the job was straightforward: ...
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If you know and love Beethoven like the back of your hand, you'll have to hear this disc. For one thing, it has the composer's own rarely recorded arrangement for piano trio of his Quintet for piano and winds, Op. 16. Home chamber music performance was apparently all the rage in early nineteenth century bourgeois households, and to forestall someone else getting royalties that should be his, Beethoven occasionally turned out his own arrangements of his most popular works. In the case of Opus 16, the job was straightforward: the piano part stayed the same, the four wind parts were redistributed among the three strings, and the result is a thoroughly enjoyable alternative to the ebullient original. For another thing, it has Ferdinand Ries' never recorded arrangement for piano trio of Beethoven's Third Symphony, "Sinfonia Eroica," Op. 55. While Opus 16 presented relatively few challenges, the gargantuan and quintessentially orchestral Opus 55 presents huge problems, and amazingly enough, Ries solves them...
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