Beethoven: Trios for piano, clarinet and cello, Ops. 11 & 38 Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, Pascal Moraguès, Adrian Brendel

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Trio for piano, clarinet and cello in B-Flat Major, Op. 11 « Gassenhauer »:
• 1 Trio for piano, clarinet and cello in B-Flat Major, Op. 11 « Gassenhauer »: I. Allegro con brio 09:43
• 2 Trio for piano, clarinet and cello in B-Flat Major, Op. 11 « Gassenhauer »: II. Adagio 05:21
• 3 Trio for piano, clarinet and cello in B-Flat Major, Op. 11 « Gassenhauer »: III. Thema. Pria ch'io l'impegno. Allegretto - con variazioni 07:03
• Trio for piano, clarinet and cello in E-Flat Major, Op. 38 (After Septet, Op. 20):
• 4 Trio for piano, clarinet and cello in E-Flat Major, Op. 38 (After Septet, Op. 20): I. Adagio - Allegro con brio 10:31
• 5 Trio for piano, clarinet and cello in E-Flat Major, Op. 38 (After Septet, Op. 20): II. Adagio cantabile 09:03
• 6 Trio for piano, clarinet and cello in E-Flat Major, Opus 38 (After Septet Op. 20): III. Tempo di menuetto 03:03
• 7 Trio for piano, clarinet and cello in E-Flat Major, Op. 38 (After Septet, Op. 20): IV. Andante con variazioni 07:06
• 8 Trio for piano, clarinet and cello in E-Flat Major, Op. 38 (After Septet, Op. 20): V. Scherzo. Allegro molto e vivace 03:08
• 9 Trio for piano, clarinet and cello in E-Flat Major, Op. 38 (After Septet, Op. 20): VI. Andante con moto, alla marcia. Presto 07:52
• Total Runtime 01:02:50

Info for Beethoven: Trios for piano, clarinet and cello, Ops. 11 & 38

Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro dedicates his new album to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, celebrating the 250th anniversary of his birth.

This album was recorded in Paris, at La Seine Musicale, for the French label Paraty and internationally distributed by Harmonia Mundi PIAS.

In this new album, Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro has the company of two world-renowned great musicians:

French clarinetist Pascal Moraguès, 1st Solo Clarinet of Orchestre de Paris, Professor at Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, Escuela Superior de Música "Reina Sofía" de Madrid and Conservatoire de Paris. and British cellist Adrian Brendel.

British cellist Adrian Brendel, Professor at Royal Academy of Music and which discography includes a Beethoven monographic album with legendary pianist Alfred Brendel, his father, with a reference recording of Beethoven Sonatas for Cello and Piano.

The album includes the only two Beethoven Trios for Piano, Clarinet and Cello, his Opus 11 and 38, following the multi-award winning double album by the DSCH - Shostakovich Ensemble, with the first world recording of Shostakovich Complete Chamber Music for Piano and Strings.

The Trio Opus 11 was composed in 1798 and is nicknamed "Gassenhauer" due to its final tempo being a set of variations on a very popular theme from Joseph Weigl's opera "L'amor marinaro" ("Gassenhauer" means popular song). The character is cheerful and humorous, including countless harmonic and rhythmic surprises, but there are also passages where we find a dramatic atmosphere.

The Trio Opus 38 was composed between 1802 and 1803 and is re-criation by Beethoven, for piano, clarinet and cello, of his famous Septet Opus 20, a masterpiece full of optimism and fantasy.

A chamber ensemble based in Lisbon since its foundation in 2006, the DSCH - Shostakovich Ensemble is now regarded as one of Europe's leading chamber music projects, constituting an exciting platform of excellence for the interaction of top musicians of the international scene.

DSCH – Schostakovich Ensemble
Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, piano
Pascal Moraguès, clarinet
Adrian Brendel, cello

Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro
Considered one of Europe's leading pianists of his generation, Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro is celebrated for his poetic sensibility, musical intelligence and consummate artistry.

Born in Porto, he studied in various countries before becoming a disciple of Lyudmila Roshchina at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he obtained a Doctorate in Musical Performance in 2000, with maximum classifications.

Playing the whole spectrum of the piano repertoire, from the Baroque to Contemporary Music, he has premiered many works from composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich, Marcelo Nisinman, Eurico Carrapatoso and Sofia Gubaidulina.

As a soloist, he is frequently invited by the most important orchestras from Portugal and also from other countries, such as Russia, Spain, Cuba, Slovakia, Armenia or Belgium, collaborating with conductors John Nelson, Emilio Pomàrico, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, Boguslaw Dawidow, Rengim Gökmen, Daniel Smith, Marc Tardue, Misha Rachlevsky e Christoph Poppen Dmitri Liss and Mikhail Agrest, amongst many others.

A passionate chamber musician, he has performed regularly with outstanding colleagues, such as Gary Hoffman, Pascal Moraguès, Mihaela Martin, Janne Saksala, Corey Cerovsek, José van Dam, Tedi Papavrami, Renaud Capuçon, Adrian Brendel, Benjamin Schmid, Gérard Caussé, Michel Portal, Emily Beynon, Jack Liebeck, Christian Poltéra, Isabel Charisius, Radek Baborák, Eldar Nebolsin, Ramón Ortega, Lars Anders Tomter, Anna Samuil and Frans Helmerson, to name a few.

Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro is the founder (2006) and artistic director of the DSCH - Schostakovich Ensemble, based in Lisbon’s Centro Cultural de Belém. The Ensemble has recorded for Mezzo channel and performs regularly across Europe. 2018 marked the beginning of Shostakovich Ensemble's discography, with the world's first recording of Dmitri Shostakovich's Complete Chamber Music for Piano and Strings, recorded by Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, Corey Cerovsek, Cerys Jones, Isabel Charisius and Adrian Brendel. This double CD album, edited by Paraty label and worldwide distributed by Harmonia Mundi PIAS, is receiving numerous accolades from the press: 5 Diapasons, Opus D’Or, Best Album of 2018 Classique News, maximum classifications from the German magazine Das Orchester, the Dutch magazine Luister, the Belgian magazine Crescendo and from Kulturradio Radio Berlin-Brandenburg, great reviews from magazines Gramophone and Scherzo, The Guardian, among others.

He has released several CDs, highly appreciated by music critics, featuring works by Bach, Scarlatti, Seixas, Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Ravel, Mussorgsky, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, etc. His CD PIANO SEASONS, recorded in France for Paraty and distributed by Harmonia Mundi, received worldwide acclaim - BBC Music Magazine (4 stars), Klassik Heute (10/10), BR-Klassik (CD of the week), among others. It includes “The Seasons, opus 37-bis” by Tchaikovsky; the first recording of the new piano version of Piazzolla’s “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires”, composed by Marcelo Nisinman for Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro; and “Four Last Seasons of Lisbon”, by Eurico Carrapatoso, a cycle also dedicated to the pianist and having its first recording in this double CD.

Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro is often invited as artistic director of music festivals. He is the artistic and pedagogical director of Festival and Academy VERÃO CLÁSSICO - CLASSICAL SUMMER at Lisbon’s Centro Cultural de Belém, which he founded in 2015 and includes concerts and masterclasses with the participation of teachers and musicians of great reputation, soloists of the world greatest orchestras and from some of the most prestigious international teaching institutions, and young musicians from all over the world.

Besides his busy performing career, Filipe was Piano and Chamber Music Professor for more than one decade at some Portuguese Universities and frequently gives Masterclasses.

Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro is a Steinway Artist, a distinction received in 2014 from Steinway & Sons.

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