BaL 20.12.14 - Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op.70 no. 1 "The Ghost"

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

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In Building a Library, Harriet Smith considere bdifferent recordings of Beethoven's Piano Trio in D major, known as "The Ghost".


Available versions:-

Abegg Trio
L'Archibudelli
Ensemble Avalon
Trio Bamberg (download)
Beaux Arts Trio
Trio Van Beethoven
Borodin Trio
Renaud Capuçon, Mischa Maisky Martha Archerich
Chung Trio (download)
Trio Cracovia
The Czech Trio
Elly Ney Trio (download)
Florestan Trio
Szymon Goldberg, Pablo Casals, Mieczyslaw Horszowski
Gould Piano Trio
Grieg Trio
Gryphon Trio
Haydn Trio Eisenstadt (download)
Haydn Trio, Wien
Trio Italiano
Jupiter Trio
Tero Latvala, Marko Ylonen, Risto Lauriala
Trio Mats (download)
Yehudi Menuhin, Maurice Gendron, Benjamin Britten
The Mirecourt Trio (download)
Morgenstern Trio
New Arts Trio
Trio Parnassus
Peabody Trio (download)
Itzhak Perlma, Lynn Harrel, Vladimir Ashkenazy
Petrof Piano Trio
Schneiderhan, Enrico Mainardi, Edwin Fischer
Takako Nishizaki, Csaba Onczay, Jeno Jando
Trio di Parma
Trio Santoliquido
Diel Sepec, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Andreas Staier
Le Trinome
Storioni Trio
Stuttgart Piano Trio
Suk Trio
Heinrich Szerying, Pierre Fournier, Wilhelm Kempff
Tröndlin Trio
Trio Zingara
Vienna Piano Trio
Xyrion Trio
Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline Du Pre, Daniel Barenboim

[Don Petter]

Istomin/Stern/Rose is still available:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Piano-Trio-Ghost-Archduke/dp/B00000291B

Trio di Trieste (in 5CD DG box) can still be found on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Trio-Trieste-Complete-recordings-Grammophon/dp/B0018OC5UA

(Download cheaper than CDs!)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Thanks Don. I didn't include these as they don't appear to be generally available in the UK, though Trio di Trieste download is presumable easily obtainable from Amazon US.

[verismissimo]

Nice little list for the Ghost. Thanks as usual, Mr Alpie.

Do I see the Unfinished looming? Maybe start now?

[verismissimo]

I've had the Beaux Arts and the Suk Trio for years, both on LP. Time to reacquaint with them and decide if something new and different is needed.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Do I see the Unfinished looming? Maybe start now?

My greatest fear is Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

[visualnickmos]

My greatest fear is Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Take a holiday! ..... a trip to Italy, perhaps

[BBMmk2]

Not overly fond of trios, but I am willing to hear again.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Not overly fond of trios, but I am willing to hear again.

They're great to play. I've been a pianist in trios ever since my school days.

[BBMmk2]

They're great to play. I've been a pianist in trios ever since my school days.

Maybe it's the genre?

[aeolium]

I first got to know the work through the Istomin-Stern-Rose recording in the 1970s and I still have an affection for it (particularly the piano-playing of Eugene Istomin). This group is also excellent in the other op 70 trio, the E flat. I also like the Ashkenazy-Perlman-Harrell performance. I'm looking forward to hearing plenty of different styles of performance - and a single reviewer.

[richardfinegold]

I've had the Beaux Arts and the Suk Trio for years, both on LP. Time to reacquaint with them and decide if something new and different is needed.

Those have been mine, along with the Barenboim/Du Pre/ Zuckerman. I really feel as ifthe Suk Trio's Beethoven is underappreciated.

[verismissimo]

Enjoying this. Not sure why it's not attracted boarders thus far.

BUT... It's Dorothea von Ertmann, not Marie, who was pianist at its premiere. Also Op 101 was dedicated to her - she was a favourite pianist of the composer. Curiously, she was the aunt of Mathilde Marchesi and taught her to play Beethoven on a daily basis.

[Richard Tarleton]

I've been listening with half an ear while doing other things. I heard Barenboim/Du Pré/Zuckerman play this in Oxford Town Hall in 1969! One of the national papers described the performance a little sniffily as "dischevelled", though this applied more to their devil-may-care platform manner, in particular Ms du Pré's.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

missed the ending but the discussion reminded me how much i find Pressler utterly compelling in anything .... and to my continuing surprise, how much i find i like Ashkenazy's playing - who won? [not on website yet]

and mention should be made of some appalling acoustics [recorded in a barn?] in the period instrument and Lugarno recordings; the German Lady Pianist from the 1930s had a far superior acoustic! [and a rather enjoyable version i thought ...]