ベートーヴェン: ピアノ三重奏曲第1番&第5番「幽霊」

シトコヴェツキー・トリオによる
ベートーヴェンのピアノ三重奏曲全曲録音第3弾は
第1番、第5番「幽霊」!

SACDハイブリッド盤。アレクサンドル・シトコヴェツキー、チェロのレオナルト・エルシェンブロイヒ、そしてピアノのウー・チェンが2007年に結成したシトコヴェツキー・トリオ。2018/2019シーズンよりチェロのエルシェンブロイヒに代わりイサン・エンダースが新メンバーに加わりました。

2020年、ベートーヴェンの生誕250周年を記念してピアノ三重奏曲全曲録音を開始。当アルバムはその第3弾で、第1番と第5番「幽霊」を収録しております。明瞭なアーティキュレーション、抜群のアンサンブル能力そして豊かな音楽性が魅力のシトコヴェツキー・トリオが溌剌とした演奏を聴かせてくれます。
キングインターナショナル

The BIS labels series of Beethovens piano trios with the Sitkovetsky Trio, offering ideal sound from the Markus-Sittkus-Saal in Austria, continues with Beethovens very first one, the Piano Trio in E flat major, Op. 1, No. 1, which did as much as any other work to define a whole genre. It is paired with arguably Beethovens most original work in the genre, the Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70, No. 1 ("Ghost"). That piece opens the program with a bang; the Sitkovetsky Trio offers a brisk, high-energy treatment of that works first movement. This displaces the rather spooky mood that gave the trio its nickname (probably thanks to Carl Czerny) fully to the slow movement, where the group is on the slow and expressive side; it is a standout performance with an affecting halting quality. The Op. 1, No. 1 trio, in four movements, also receives a strong performance that captures the breadth of the work. Sample the finale, an idiomatic representation of Beethovens youthful high spirits. The series is also including smaller works by Beethoven in the trio format, and here, listeners get a little-known item called Schone Minka, ich muss scheiden. This was a folk song setting Beethoven did for the publisher George Thomson, based on an originally Ukrainian tune. Beethoven must have liked the song, for he set it twice (heard here is the second setting from an 1816 collection called Songs of Various Nations), and each time, he lavished unusually complex treatments on it. (Spike Jones also cut a version of it -- for those who need a trivia question.) Taken all together, although there is no shortage of recordings of this music (except perhaps Schone Minka), this one can easily stand with those by better-known ensembles. ~ James Manheim