TrioVanBeethoven
Ursula Ruppe, viola
Herbert Mayr, double bass
Together with members of the Vienna Philharmonic, the TrioVanBeethoven expands to a quintet - and not just any quintet, but probably the most famous of this genre - Franz Schubert's Trout Quintet.
Version 1: “Symphonic Chamber Music”
Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio in B flat major op. 97 „Archduke“
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Franz Schubert: Quintet in A major D 667 „Trout Quintet“
Ludwig van Beethoven ended his pianistic career with the premiere of the "Archduke Trio" because of his increasing deafness. This work also represents a worthy conclusion to his series of compositions of piano trios - it is his most extensive trio with a playing time of almost three quarters of an hour - the themes are lyrical and unusually wide. Probably never did Beethoven come so close to Schubert in the musical style as in this composition! In the third movement, Beethoven varies along his own theme into endless expanses and into heavenly spheres... Franz Schubert, on the other hand, varies the song of the same name in his "Trout Quintet", and in this way ennobles and exalts it once again. If Beethoven is about "last things", this time Schubert can be the exuberantly cheerful one.
Version 2: “Variation Delight”
Joseph Haydn: Trio in G major Hob. XV:25 „all’ ongarese“
Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio in B flat major op. 11 „Gassenhauer-Trio“
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Franz Schubert: Quintet in A major D 667 „Trout Quintet“
The principle of variation determines this programme: in the opening movement Haydn varies his own theme - created especially and originally for this work. However this "Trio all' ongarese" later became famous above all for its furious final movement!
Beethoven uses a theme from a “Singspiel” that was incredibly popular at the time - simple-minded, even crudely primitive - and Beethoven presented it that way before he then elucidated it more and more in masterfully varied variations.
Finally, Schubert's variations on his "Trout" - so to speak, the merging of the two previous themes in Haydn and Beethoven: A popular song - composed by himself - is once again ennobled and exalted by colorful variations in the instrumentation.
The art of variation was always considered a great challenge, also and above all in improvisation in the Viennese classic - based on these three examples, three absolute masterpieces of this compositional technique can be admired.
Version 3: “Three – Four – Five”
Joseph Haydn: Trio in G major Hob. XV:25 „all’ ongarese“
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Quartett in G minor KV 478
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Franz Schubert: Quintet in A major D 667 „Trout Quintet“
Together with the members of the Vienna Philharmonic, the TrioVanBeethoven expands in this program to a quintet - and not just any quintet, but probably the most famous of this genre: Franz Schubert's Trout Quintet. Here, as in Joseph Haydn's "Trio all' ongarese", homage is paid to the principle of variation - masterful variation technique was considered the highest acknowledgment of compositional skills at the time. The dark, very dramatic piano quartet in G minor by Mozart stands between the two light and bright works of Haydn and Schubert - contrasts enrich: "Variatio delectat".