Early Reethoven
oa Gael O° Nei el? eee P. S ‘THE trio for clarinet, 'cello and piano of Beethoven is an early work, and does not present the composer at his best. The problem of combining three instruments of such different timbres is so difficult that neither Brahms, Berger nor d’Indy, all of whom made attempts at such trios, can be said to have succeeded, But it was interesting to hear the Beethoven trio played recently from Auckland by George Hopkins, Molly Wright and Kathleen Ha--tis, who gave a very efficient and bright performance of it. The ensemble was notably good, especially in the variations in the last movement, on a theme which unfortunately reminds one of the old song "For the moon shines to-night on Mrs. Porter." The ’cello was rather unimaginative in the opening of the slow movement, whose fast piano passages present a problem in balance which the players succeeded in solving. But the clarinet playing was fine throughout,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 485, 8 October 1948, Page 8
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162Early Reethoven New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 485, 8 October 1948, Page 8
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