Musical transcription is a fascinating exercise. In practice, it consists in taking a pre-existing work and producing a new version with different instruments. In this case, we have the opportunity to know a recreation of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 by the hand of the composer himself and with the simple use of a violin, a cello and a piano, to which the Metropolitan Soloists have now added the timpani. Also included is a composition originally written for piano trio a few years earlier, in 1795. In Trio No. 3 from Opus 1, Beethoven bet on a dramatic disposition that must have caused surprise in the conservative environment of the Austrian capital, for being perhaps excessive.
Trio and Arrangement
Metropolitana’s Soloists
L. v. Beethoven Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 1
L. v. Beethoven Symphony No. 2, Op. 36 (arr. trio with piano and timpani)
Joana Dias violin
Catarina Gonçalves cello
Fernando Llopis timpani
Marta Nunes Mata piano
