The Beethoven Project Trio | Cedille Records CDR90000118

The Beethoven Project Trio

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Label: Cedille Records

Cat No: CDR90000118

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 26th April 2010

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The recently launched Beethoven Project Trio makes its CD debut with the world premiere recording of Beethoven’s recently rediscovered Piano Trio in E-Flat Major, Hess 47, plus two more rarely-heard Beethoven piano trios.

The ensemble: pianist George Lepauw, violinist Sang Mee Lee, and cellist Wendy Warner - all internationally known soloists - gave the world premiere performance of the “Hess 47” Piano Trio on March 1, 2009, in a Chicago concert that received worldwide attention.

The piece is an original reworking, by Beethoven himself, of his String Trio, Op.3, though he finished only the first movement. In a concert review, Chicago Tribune critic John von Rhein wrote that the work “casts revealing light on the master’s working methods. . . . The piano part abounds in forte and piano contrasts that lend surprise and color.

Also on the new CD is a pair of Beethoven piano trios that received their American premieres at the same 2009 concert. The passionate and dramatic Piano Trio in E-Flat Major, Op.63, which Beethoven based on his String Quintet, Op.4 and Wind Octet, Op.103 (an early work despite the late opus number).  His early Piano Trio in D Major, Kinsky/Halm Anhang 3, was long mistaken as a work of Mozart’s because of its lyrical charm.

The Chicago Tribune praised the Beethoven Project Trio as a “splendid ensemble, playing with finely judged balance, evenness of sound and unanimity of style.” 

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