Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma – Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6 “Pastorale” and Op. 1, No. 3 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:03 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Like their first ‘Beethoven for Three’ release – ‘Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5’ – this recording challenges the traditional boundary between the chamber and orchestral repertoire to offer the listener two very different sides of the composer using the same three voices.
Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma’s Beethoven recording challenges the traditional boundary between chamber and orchestral repertoire to offer the listener two very different sides of the composer using the same three voices. In the C Minor Piano Trio, we hear Beethoven’s brilliant exploration of three instruments’ essential expressive capabilities; in the Pastorale, lovingly reimagined for trio piano by Shai Wosner, the piano, violin, and cello transcend their own identities to represent the endless creativity of the natural world, becoming, in turn, bird, brook, and storm.
Tracklist:
1-1. Yo-Yo Ma – I. Allegro ma non troppo, “Awakening of cheerful feelings on arriving in the countryside” (11:51)
1-2. Yo-Yo Ma – II. Andante molto mosso, “Scene by the brook” (11:56)
1-3. Yo-Yo Ma – III. Allegro, “Joyful gathering of countryfolk” (04:51)
1-4. Yo-Yo Ma – IV. Allegro, “The storm” (03:42)
1-5. Yo-Yo Ma – V. Allegretto, “Shepherd’s song. Thanksgiving after the storm” (09:46)
1-6. Yo-Yo Ma – I. Allegro con brio (10:01)
1-7. Yo-Yo Ma – II. Andante cantabile con variazioni (07:38)
1-8. Yo-Yo Ma – III. Menuetto. Quasi allegro (03:39)
1-9. Yo-Yo Ma – IV. Finale. Prestissimo (08:34)
