Release Date: 01 January 2000
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099438926
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: BEETHOVEN / RIES
Description
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Clarinet Trio in E flat major, Op. 38 (after Septet in E flat major, Op. 20) Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) Clarinet Trio in B flat major, Op. 28 It was not until 1792 that Beethoven finally began to establish himself in Vienna. Born in Bonn, the son of a singer in the musical establishment of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, an establishment of which his grandfather had been Kapellmeister, he inevitably followed family tradition as a musician, acquiring skill as a boy both as a keyboard-player and string-player, in addition to growing competence as a composer that had attracted the attention of Haydn. Arriving in Vienna with the encouragement of the Archbishop, a member of the Imperial family, and armed with introductions to members of the nobility, he set about bettering himself by lessons with Haydn, with Athrechtsberger and with Salieri, and earning a living through his skill as a pianist, a skill to which his developing powers as a composer were an important adjunct. In a period of social and political change, Beethoven was to win for himself an exceptional position in Vienna, his increasing eccentricities, accentuated by the onset of deafness at the turn of the century, tolerated even under the restrictive policies of Prince Mettemich, after 1815. Beethoven's Septet in E flat major, Opus 20, scored for violin, viola, cello, double bass, clarinet, horn and bassoon, was first heard at a private concert given in 1799 in the house of Prince Schwarzenberg. A public performance came on 2nd April 1800 at the Royal Imperial Court Theatre in a benefit concert for the composer. Beethoven offered a programme that included a Mozart symphony, an aria and a duet from Haydn's Creation, and from himself a piano concerto, his Symphony No. 1 in C, an improvisation and the Septet, this last dedicated to Her Majesty the Empress. The Septet soon won extraordinary popularity and appeared in later years in arrangement after arrangement. Beethoven urged his publishers to issue the work quickly, fearing that it might be pirated, and himself brought out, in 1802, a string quintet version, followed in 1803 by the present version for clarinet or violin, cello and piano. This trio version, numbered Opus 38, he dedicated to his doctor, Johann Adam Schmidt, who played the violin and whose daughter played the piano. The Clarinet Trio, Opus 38, starts its first movement with a slow introduction, leading to a sonata-form Allegro con brio, its first subject followed, after a brief transition, by a gentler second. The first subject forms the basis of a central development, after which there is a recapitulation that includes both themes and an extended coda. The A flat major slow movement, placed second, is in broadly ternary form and is followed by the Tempo di Menuello that uses a melody well enough known from its appearance in the Piano Sonata Opus 49, No.2, framing a trio section. The next movement consists of a B flat major theme, once thoug
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
