Debretzeni/Comberti/Cole - Ludwig van Beethoven: Three Piano Trios, Op.1 in Eb Major, G Major and C Minor

In this new Chaconne release, Trio Goya offers unique accounts of Beethoven�s early piano trios, revealing on period instruments and in the magical acoustic of the Britten-Pears Auditorium at Aldeburgh�s Snape Maltings the extraordinary range of colours and narratives that these pieces suggest. Beethoven�s Opus 1 features amongst Trio Goya�s central repertoire, played regularly in the UK�s most prestigious venues and beyond. After a recent Wigmore Hall concert, Early Music Today wrote that �Trio Goya sent us home spinning on the delights and laughter of early Beethoven. His piano trio opus 1 No. 1 frothed and bubbled down the finale's theme, the musicians swept along by their own hell for- leather, immaculately kept tempo.� These pieces mark a kind of beginning in Beethoven�s career. They were indeed planned and executed, over a period of two years, with unprecedented care and skill; they mark the start of a new creative period for the young genius, which is distinct from the younger Bonn years and is fully deserving of the label �first maturity� conferred by the musicologist Lewis Lockwood.