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Background: The Gaede Trio has a fondness for breaking up sets of pieces and linking them together in new ways, and this is what they are doing now in this short series in which the string trios of Beethoven represent a sort of intellectual acrostic.

In these works, often dismissed as 'not quite quartets', the three musicians create some juxtapositions that 'need some getting used to'. The Serenade op.8 as a pendant to Ysaÿe and Eisler or Krenek, Bach and Françaix as a framework for the Trio in D major op.9 No.2, these are indeed innovative ideas.

Listening, however, reveals the deeper connections, and then these latest couplings become comprehensible. This is a pure Viennese mélange. In the centre there is a masterly (and suitably spooky) performance of the C minor trio op.9 No.3, a work whose whole atmosphere thrusts the listener into the early Romantic craze for the supernatural.

There is also a delicate Divertimento by Haydn and a natty little coffee-house offering from Kreisler, whose 'lollipops' are heard here in an arrangement by Fredo Jung, born in 1949. Remarkably, this quirky recipe never fails to please.

CATALOGUE NR: TACET122
RECORD LABEL: Tacet
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.08 including VAT, or £ 10.51 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 13-Sep-2004

COMPOSER: Joseph Haydn  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Divertimento Hob.V:8 (Haydn). Trio in C minor op.9 No.3 (Beethoven). Arrangements for String Trio (Kreisler).
ARTISTS: Gaede Trio      

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