The bumpy relationship between Beethoven and Haydn.
In ‘Stubborn Student’ part IX, about the points of contact between Beethoven and Haydn, we are looking for early works that Beethoven wrote in Bonn, or which he started working on then and finished later in Vienna to show Haydn. We hear his very first string trio, in which he uses compositional tricks that would later become his characteristic. And we conclude with Variations on an aria from Mozart’s opera ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’, which he gave to his girlfriend Eleonore von Breuning as a present in thanks for a shawl of hare’s hair she made for him.
1.Ludwig van Beethoven: 1st part from String trio in E flat major op. 3
Trio Italiano d’Archi
2.Ludwig van Beethoven: Pian otrio in E flat major Hess 47
The Beethoven Project Trio
3.Ludwig van Beethoven: parts 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 from String trio in E flat major op. 3
Trio Italiano d’Archi
4.Ludwig van Beethoven: Variations on ‘Se vuol ballare’ from Mozarts opera ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’, WoO 40
James Ehnes, violin
Andrew Armstrong, piano
