Beethoven Piano Trios Vol.3

 
 

1. i) Allegro, Trio Op.11
Robert Plane, Alice Neary, Benjamin Frith  

 

2. ii) Adagio, Trio Op.11
Robert Plane, Alice Neary, Benjamin Frith  

 

3. iii) Allegretto, Trio Op.11
Robert Plane, Alice Neary, Benjamin Frith  

 

4. Variations Op.121a
Gould Piano Trio  

 

5. i) Adagio, Trio Op.38
Robert Plane, Alice Neary, Benjamin Frith  

 

6. ii) Adagio, Trio Op.38
Robert Plane, Alice Neary, Benjamin Frith  

 

7. iii) Menuetto, Trio Op.38
Robert Plane, Alice Neary, Benjamin Frith  

 

8. iv) Andante, Trio Op.38
Robert Plane, Alice Neary, Benjamin Frith  

 

9. v) Scherzo, Trio Op.38
Robert Plane, Alice Neary, Benjamin Frith  

 

10. vi) Andante, Trio Op.38
Robert Plane, Alice Neary, Benjamin Frith  

This is the third of four fabulous concerts given by the Gould Piano Trio at St. George’s, Brandon Hill, Bristol and captured live on disc by SOMM. The concert recorded on this third Volume took place in February 2012 as part of a simultaneous live broadcast by BBC Radio Three for later transmission. The Gould Piano Trio are joined here by the popular clarinettist Robert Plane (former principal clarinettist of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the CBSO) who features in two of the three works on the CD.

Andrew Clements, The Guardian

….. Superb performances of the three piano trios – the earliest of them, a single movement in D minor from 1900, left unfinished and only now turned into a performable work by the Gould Trio themselves – form the backbone of the disc, with the hugely impressive, fiercely coherent E minor Trio from 1946, providing its natural climax…..

 

 
 
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