Janaki String Trio - Young Beethoven: String Trio In C Minor - VINYL LP

Janaki's debut album was one of the first I mastered for Yarlung Records... People still want to talk about it at audiophile shows, usually with sharpie pen in hand, asking for my autograph on the original CD. This has become one of Yarlung's iconic recordings, an out of the ballpark home run because it combines lifelike sound with hair raising, inspired performances. The 3D presentation, the you are there tonality and perfect acoustic decay in Zipper Hall where this was recorded, reveal three living breathing musicians playing just for us; it doesn't get any better than this.

Executive producer Jim Mulally. When you hear this trio play Sibelius, you'll understand why the Sibelius family granted Petteri, Juho and Samuli use of the composer's name. Jean Sibelius' piano trios were important to him personally. He wrote them in his youth, during the summers he vacationed with his brother Christian and sister Linda on various islands in Houtskar, the Finnish archipelago off the southwest coast of Finland. Sibelius wrote Korppoo Trio on Korrpoo Island where the composer (violin), Linda (piano) and Christian (cello) played it on 'rainy days' at the family's summer house. - Bob Attiyeh, producer'Sibelius gave us his monumental Korppoo Trio in D Major (JS 209) in 1887. We can hear the magnificent mature Sibelius peeking out through this work. Sibelius wrote Korppoo Trio in three sophisticated and dramatic movements... Korppoo opens with a good-humored celebration of the Beauty of Nature and includes a thoughtful Fugue in the development section which demonstrates his growing power as a composer. Next comes a Fantasia, improvisational and painterly in nature, with frequent tempo changes and mood swings, ending with passages of natural serenity that remind me of bird song. Sibelius reveals his fun sense of humor in the final Rondo, which he writes without allowing himself to be inhibited by traditions of the 'approved' classical tradition.' - Juho Pohjonen

Beethoven's slighting of the sting trio for the string quartet after 1800 led to nearly a century of dismissal of the form for most serious composers to follow despite his youthful production of the five string trio masterpieces he turned out before age 30; indeed, many musicians and scholars have preferred the mature Trios Op. 9 to the subsequent String Quartets Op. 18. The Jacques Thibaud String Trio, recipients of tremendous acclaim from audiences and critics alike throughout Europe, Japan and North America, present the complete string trios by Beethoven on it's new 2 CD audite .