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My introduction to this work as a student in the 70s was Stern, Rose, Istomin - nice to see that DP apparently holds it still in high regard. Then Busch, Busch, Serkin on LP, then Beaux Arts (r.1960s) and Cortot, Thibaud, Casals on CD.
I haven't got a digital version!!!!:doh:
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I agree - other good HIP versions:Originally Posted by Il Grande Inquisitor
Mozartean players (Steven Lubin/Stanley Ritchie/Myron Lutzke)
and my favourite:-
la Gaia Scienza (Federica Valli/Stefano Barneschi/Paolo Beschi)
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Zukermann/Harrell/Ashkenazy is rather fine, if you're happy with a very slightly aggressive sound.
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A DVD of both Schubert Trios, performed by the Beaux Arts, was issued in January this year on ICAClassics:
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProduct....do?sku=931086
This recordings took place in the Signet Library, Edinburgh on 21st Nov and 13th Dec 1978.
The fiming of these performance was, I believe, one of the last activities of the Beaux Arts Trio as the cellist, Bernard Greenhouse retired shorly afterwards.
I was sorry to hear that Bernard recently died (aged 95) - on May 13.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...reenhouse.html
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well i was so looking forward to this and did greatly appreciate the extracts but the coverage of the field was so thin i was left feeling very let down ...
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Correction: I got these dates wrong. The second recording was on 13 Dec 1987, and this was about the time Bernard Greenhouse retired.
Apologies for this error.
I should add that there are several films of the Beaux Arts Trio on YouTube and elsewhere on the internet - well worth viewing.
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Cheer up - all you need is this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Schubert-Com...5980373&sr=1-1
I have been more than happy with the performances when they first came out on the Philips label.
I intend to live forever - so far, so good.
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I only caught the last 15 mins or so so can't comment on the whole race, but one thing struck me as a teeny bit surprising about the finish. The top two in the frame, Beaux Arts and Florestan, are US and British, and IIRC a lot of the those that fell at the final fence were French, while the veterans' champion - very unsurprisingly - was a certain French/French/Spanish ensemble. Shortly beforehand, the Suk trio being pulled up was the first bit of the programme I heard.
Wot! No Austro-German trios up at the front of the field????
Looking at EA's 1st posting of runners and riders, there weren't that many to come under orders. Is Austro-German chamber music in some sort of decline?
As for my earlier posting, I can now sit back smugly with my 1960s Beaux Arts and Cortot/ Thibaud/ Casals CDs, and contemplate buying the Florestans only when I somehow get filthy rich...
...or become totally converted to digital
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well i have the Beaux Arts ... but not the Grumiaux ... but also the Weiner Mozart Trio; Heifetz/Lateiner/Piatgorsky; Rubinstein/Fournier/Szerying and La Gaia Scienza and none mentioned at all and have heard the Vienna Piano Trio perform the Eb on r3 ... it was thin coverage ...
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Hi Jazbo,
The Heifetz version I have is with Rubinstein and Feuermann, is yours a live performance?
Mike
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