Ludwig van Beethoven : Œuvres pour trio avec piano (Intégrale)

Piano International (Jan, 2012)
Forget ‘32 Beethoven Sonatas’. Count in the 10 violin sonatas, the five for cello, the Horn Sonata, the quintet with winds, and discount the immature stuff (three solo sonatas, three piano quartets), and there are more like 50 for pianists to play – plus the seven mature trios here. The Hyperion set is ideal for library-builders, including everything Beethoven wrote for the medium (details above). Op 11 is in its composer-sanctioned version, with violin instead of clarinet; the lesser works show the composer developing fast. The Florestan Trio is exemplary.

Skip Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann, Fauré and Saint-Saëns – this month anyway – for something more enterprising. Not even the …