Beethoven Through the Lens of Time

In Beethoven’s chamber music, formal clarity and personal expression coalesce into a new musical identity that continues to exert its influence well into the 19th century. Hensel’s Piano Trio displays a subtle yet resolute musical language, which takes on new hues in the version performed here. Brahms’s late clarinet trio takes Beethoven’s principle of motivic condensation into an autumnal, subdued soundscape of great inner tranquillity. Programme Fanny Hensel (1805–1847) Piano Trio in D minor, in a version for flute, cello and piano Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114 Calogero Palermo, clarinet Andrea Kollé, flute Payam Taghadossi, cello Alexander Boeschoten, piano