BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Trios 7 LP Box Set Beaux Arts Trio Phillips 6725 035

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Beaux Arts Trio

Beethoven Complete Piano Trios

(Samtliche Klaviertrios)

(Integrale des trios avee piano)

Philips 6725 035 Box Set – 7 LP’s

The Beaux Arts Trio was a noted piano trio, celebrated for their vivacity, emotional depth and wide-ranging repertoire. They made their debut on 13 July 1955, at the Berkshire Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, known today as the Tanglewood Music Center. Their final American concert was held at Tanglewood on 21 August 2008. It was webcast live and archived on NPR Music. Their final concert was in Lucerne, Switzerland on 6 September 2008.

The Beaux Arts Trio recorded the entire standard piano trio repertoire. In 2005, the trio celebrated its 50th anniversary with two special CD issues, one featuring their most popular releases through their long years of recording (released by Philips Records), and the other an anniversary collection of new music (released by Warner Records).

Throughout its existence, the trio was held together by founding pianist Menahem Pressler. The original members of the trio when it was founded in 1955 were as follows:

Piano: Menahem Pressler

Violin: Daniel Guilet

Cello: Bernard Greenhouse

The violin and cello members changed on a number of occasions, with later members including the following: Violin: Isidore Cohen (1968–1992; formerly second violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet), Ida Kavafian (1992–1998), Yung Uck Kim (1998–2002), Daniel Hope (2002–2008)

Cello: Peter Wiley (1987–1998; he then moved to Guarneri Quartet), Antonio Meneses (1998–2008)

“Since its founding 50 years ago, the Beaux Arts Trio has become the gold standard for trios throughout the world.” - The Washington Post

“During the past half century, one ensemble has been preeminent–the Beaux Arts Trio, which, by any reckoning, has to be the most robust piano trio of all time… Mr. Hope plays with a finally tuned ardor of a young poet; Mr. Meneses is the epitome of suave, manly discretion. As Mr. Pressler enters [another] year as the backbone of this generation-crossing threesome, the Beaux Arts seems more vital than ever.” - The New York Observer

“Beaux Arts is in a class by itself.” - New York Times

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