Chamber, Trios, Beethoven (composer)
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This is a delight: sprightly, well-articulated playing which bounds with vitality. The Archduke starts in an almost improvisatory spirit...The energy of the performance is driven by the pianist... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, May 2025, Recommended Recording
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Building A Library, September 2025, Recommended Recording (Archduke)
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Beethoven for Three - Symphony No. 4 & 'Archduke' Trio
RecommendedEmanuel Ax (piano), Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
The more you explore this arrangement, the more you appreciate the way Wosner respects the original without being hemmed in by it. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music Recording of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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Beethoven: String Trios, Op. 9 Nos. 1-3
RecommendedTrio Zimmermann: Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Christian Poltéra (cello)
The playing itself is dazzling, combining expressive warmth and admirable clarity: I don't think I've ever heard the presto finale of the first Trio dashed off with quite such transparency and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Chamber Award Winner
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Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos. 6 & 7
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) & Alexander Melnikov (Graff fortepiano)
Melnikov works wonders with his 1828 Graff piano, managing to make it less clattery and more piano-like than in most other fortepiano recordings. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Chamber Award Winner
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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They combine a sense of dialectical urgency, crucial in this work, with a natural conversational intimacy. Pianist Wu Qian, first among equals in this music, has a limpid, sparkling touch, using... —
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Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Piano Trio Op. 36 (Symphony No. 2)
Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
There’s no question of a timid approach, and the clean timbre of the period instruments is echoed by the soloists, entering one by one. Especially fetching is the empathy between Faust and Queyras,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Concerto
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6 and Op. 1, No. 3
RecommendedLeonidas Kavakos (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano)
In the ‘Pastoral’, Ax had to contend with some ungrateful writing, notably in accompanying figures, but he is liberated [in Op. 1 No. 3], with trills and passagework sparkling effortlessly in... —
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Brahms, Beethoven & Mozart: Clarinet Trios
RecommendedYo-Yo Ma (cello), Richard Stolzman (clarinet), Emanuel Ax (piano)
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Grammy Awards, 38th Awards (1995), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Trio Zimmermann - A Retrospective
Trio Zimmermann, Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Christian Poltéra (cello)
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The Busch are a thoroughly expert ensemble, easily to be trusted with a complete Beethoven cycle. They explore the composer's more overtly expressive moments with earnestness and telling dynamic... —
