Piano Trios Nos. 7 (Archduke) and 4 (Gassenhauer) in B flat - Beethoven

	download price	Trio Santoliquido: Ornella Santoliquido, piano Arrigo Pellicia, violin Massimo Amfitheatrof, cello Recorded in 1957, issued as Musical Masterpiece Society LP MMS-2140 Transfer and XR remastering by Andrew Rose at Pristine Audio, April 2008 Cover artwork based on a photograph of Trio Santoliquido Download ID: 440178/179/180 Total duration: 54:17   A Pristine Audio XR restoration Scroll down for PDF covers and cue-sheet download	Play sample movement:

Delightful performances by one of the great forgotten Trios

Trio Santoliquido at their very best

Notes on the restoration: By the time this recording was made, great strides in recording technology had taken place, and the rather hit-and-miss vinyl pressings of the early 1950's were largely a thing of the past.

This makes it much easier for the restoration engineer to produce excellent results, especially from a near-mint copy of the LP as used here. That said, the original sound had a boxiness to it which the XR remastering process has largely eradicated, and at times the listener may be aware of the very slightest peak distortion on loud and high piano notes.

String tones are clear and vibrant, the piano tone warm and rich, and the playing simply divine!

Trio Santoliquido

TRIO SANTOLIQUIDO, based in Rome, was formed in 1942.

Pianist Ornella Puliti Santoliquido was born in Florence. She studied with Casella and Brugnoli. As a solo pianist she developed a successful career with some speed, working with many orchestras and top conductors in several European countries and the United States. She performed at the Edinburgh Festival, and undertook extensive tours as a concert pianist in England and Scandinavia. In the early 1950s she was highly regarded and took up a teaching post at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, where in 1956 she founded the Quartetto di Roma (Rome Quartet).

Arrigo Pelliccia (violin) was born in Viareggio in 1912; d Rome , 20 July 1987 ). He studied first with his father, then at the conservatory in Bologna and later took postgraduate courses with Arrigo Serato at the Accademia di S Cecilia and with Carl Flesch in Berlin. His concert career began in 1931 and he was soon acclaimed as one of the brightest young violinists of the younger generation, undertaking numerous concert tours. As a soloist, he specialised in contemporary music, and in 1948 he gave the European première of Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto in Venice. After World War II he divided his time between leading the orchestra of the Pomeriggi Musicali at Milan, playing with the Trio Santoliquido, the Rome Quartet and the Boccherini Quintet, and the violin as a soloist with the Virtuosi di Roma, and performing as a soloist on both the violin and the viola, making many appearances abroad. He recorded Mozart’s duos for violin and viola with Grumiaux, to great acclaim. From 1939 to 1959 he taught at the Conservatorio S. Pietro a Majella (Naples) , and then at the Rome Conservatory.

Cellist Massimo Amfiteatrov was born in Paris and moved to Italy while still very young, in order to study with Gilberto Crepax in Milan. During his career he performed with major orchestras throughout Europe and the USA, and appeared with Orchestra La Scala as both principal cellist and soloist at the Edinburgh Festival.

All three members of the Trio also recorded and performed with the orchestra Virtuosi di Roma, whose remastered recordings can also be found on the Pristine Audio label.

Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 7 in B flat 'Archduke'

Notes from Wikipedia

The Piano Trio No. 7 Op. 97 in B-flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven is a piano trio for piano, violin, and violoncello published in 1811. It is commonly referred to as the Archduke Trio, because it was dedicated to the amateur pianist and composition student of Beethoven, Archduke Rudolph of Austria.

It was written during the "middle" period of Beethoven's compositional career, which spans approximately 1803 until 1814. Composition began in the summer of 1810 and it was completed in March of 1811.

The first public performance was given by Beethoven himself, Ignaz Schuppanzigh (violinist) and Josef Linke (cellist) at the Viennese hotel ‘Zum römischen Kaiser’ on 11 April 1814, as his deafness continued to encroach upon his ability as a performer. Of this performance the violinist/composer Ludwig Spohr wrote: "In forte passages the poor deaf man pounded on the keys until the strings jangled and in piano he played so softly that whole groups of notes were omitted."

The work is in four movements:

• Allegro moderato
• Scherzo (Allegro)
• Andante cantabile ma però con moto
• Allegretto moderato - Presto

Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 4 in B flat 'Gassenhauer'

Notes from Wikipedia

The Piano Trio No.4, op. 11, by Ludwig Van Beethoven, is one of a series of early chamber works, many involving woodwind instruments because of their popularity and novelty at the time. The trio is scored for Piano, Clarinet (or violin), and Cello (sometimes substituted by bassoon). The trio is in the key of B flat major, probably to facilitate fast passages in the B flat clarinet, which had not yet benefited from the development of the Boehm System. It was composed in 1797, and published in Vienna the next year; Beethoven dedicated the piece to Countess Maria Wilhelmine von Thun.

The trio is in three movements:

1. Allegro con brio
2. Adagio
3. Tema con variazioni (Pria ch'io l'impegno: Allegretto)

Find out more:   Trio No 7 in B flat: 2. Scherzo - Allegro CD covers to print:   CD-writing cuesheet: [What's that?] Download our Illustrated Catalogue Complete catalogue of recordings, fully indexed by composer and performer, with links to website pages Restoration by Andrew Rose:

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