Ludwig van Beethoven

String Trio Op. 3 & Serenade Op. 8

Ssens Trio

Label: Lawo Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 7090020181349

Catalog number: LWC 1122
Releasedate: 02-06-17

- Beautifull new release from Ssens Trio, merited Norwegian musicians

- Special devoted two first String Trio's from Ludwig van Beethoven

Over a few short years of the 1790s, Beethoven devoted special attention to a genre to which he would not return later in his life: the string trio. Five large-scale compositions would be the result. The first two, which are the subject of this recording, had likely been committed to paper by the time Beethoven travelled to Vienna to study with Haydn. Their formal aspects alone seem to link them to the suite form of the Baroque more closely than the last three (op. 9), in which Beethoven cultivated the classical sonata form, albeit somewhat removed from the essentially entertaining “serenade style” (the Notturno) refined by Mozart.

String Trio in E-flat major, Op. 3

I. Allegro con brio

11:04

String Trio in E-flat major, Op. 3

II. Andante

06:42

String Trio in E-flat major, Op. 3

III. Menuetto. Allegretto

03:39

String Trio in E-flat major, Op. 3

IV. Adagio

08:48