Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 1 / Op. 70, No. 1 'Ghost' / Op. 11 'Gassenhauer'
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano)
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2025, Recording of the Month
Unlike some 'superstar' ensembles which find personalities fighting for the spotlight, there's a unanimity of purpose here that always puts the music first. That translates into real delight...
Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 1 / Op. 70, No. 1 'Ghost' / Op. 11 'Gassenhauer'
Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano)
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2025, Recording of the Month
Unlike some 'superstar' ensembles which find personalities fighting for the spotlight, there's a unanimity of purpose here that always puts the music first. That translates into real delight...
About
The programme for the fourth instalment of the Grammy-nominated series ‘Beethoven for Three’ features global star Yo-Yo Ma (who celebrated his 70th birthday in October 2025), his long-time piano partner Emanuel Ax and violinist Leonidas Kavakos performing the First Symphony – once again arranged for piano trio. This is complemented by the popular, yet eerily stirring ‘Ghost’ Trio, Op. 70 No. 1, and the extremely catchy, so-called ‘Gassenhauer’ Trio (originally intended for clarinet, piano and cello), Op. 11, will also be featured, and the album is thus likely to offer, as Rondo magazine put it, ‘a listening experience of the finest kind’.
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Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineDecember 2025Recording of the Month
December 2025
Unlike some 'superstar' ensembles which find personalities fighting for the spotlight, there's a unanimity of purpose here that always puts the music first. That translates into real delight in Beethoven's continual invention...Smiles all round.
October 2025
This series is turning out to be an absolute delight. The latest volume offers the First Symphony in yet another of Shai Wosner's impressively idiomatic arrangements.
