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| Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917284720 |
Catalogue number CC 72847 |
Release date 14 August 2020 |
"It is true that these are three exceptional musicians. If Maria Milstein has a sensitive game [...], she also knows how to show dreadfully incisive [...] The warm cello of Gideonden Herder embraces us in the Adagio of Opus 11. Instinctive pianist Hannes Minnaar animates the discourse to strategic places by tiny text solicitations."
Classica, 31-5-2021The young Van Baerle Trio, made of stunning soloists – Hannes Minnaar on piano, Maria Milstein on violin and Gideon den Herder on cello – have accomplished the Beethoven’s Piano Trio recordings. Now, Challenge Classics releases a box including the five volumes of their remarkable survey. It includes the three youthful Trios op. 1, the two great Trios op. 70, the absolute masterpiece which is the Trio op. 97, named ‘Archduke’.
Together with such ‘official’ and original works, there are also Beethoven’s own transcriptions of his own works: the Clarinet Trio op. 11, the Trio arrangements of the Septet op. 20 and of the Sympony no. 2. You will also find some light, occasional pieces like the Allegrettos in E-flat and in B-flat, the Variations op. 44 and op. 121a. The most unexpected work included in the box is the Triple Concerto, as the musicians consider it as a real piece of ‘augmented’ chamber music.
Fanfare: “I believe this is one of the great piano trio performances in the history of recording. This is a recording that should be in everyone's collection.”
Gramophone: “The effect is liberating and, in these joyous, playful performances, utterly refreshing. The effect is of real chamber music – up close and very personal.”
MusicWeb International: “To my ears the Van Baerle Trio is amongst the top rank in terms of performance and recorded quality.”
Luister: “The second volume is also exceptionally good. With great mastery, the Van Baerle Trio balances perfectly on the border between symphonic grandeur and chamber music transparency.”
The Van Baerle Trio was founded in 2004 by pianist Hannes Minnaar, violinist Maria Milstein and cellist Gideon den Herder. The trio takes its name from the street where it all started: Van Baerle Street, Amsterdam. The three musicians met there whilst studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, a stone‘s throw from the Concertgebouw, which they now consider their musical home.
The Van Baerle Trio was formed under the guidance of Dmitri Ferschtman and received lessons from Ferenc Rados and Claus-Christian Schuster, among others. Their encounter with Menahem Pressler in 2008 was a huge inspiration to the three musicians, who subsequently played for him on several occasions.
After winning the 2011 Vriendenkrans Competition in the Concertgebouw and performing there on numerous occasions since, the Van Baerle Trio was promoted by the Concertgebouw as ECHO Rising Stars 2013/14, a tour which took the trio to major venues across Europe, including Vienna‘s Musikverein, the London Barbican, Cité de la Musique in Paris, L‘Auditori in Barcelona and the Philharmonie in Cologne. The Van Baerle Trio had already established its international reputation, after being awarded top prizes at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 2013 and the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition in 2011, as well as receiving the audience prize at both contests, and winning the Kersjes Prize in 2012, the highest chamber music award in the Netherlands.
The Van Baerle Trio’s discography has featured a debut CD of works by Saint-Saëns, Loevendie and Ravel, which received an Edison Award in 2013. This was followed by an album dedicated to Mendelssohn’s piano trios, including the world premiere recording of the early version of his Piano Trio in D minor. This CD is the culmination of the Trio’s recordings of Beethoven’s complete works for piano trio, of which their previous volumes have already won high praise internationally.
Maria Milstein plays a violin by Michel Angelo Bergonzi and Gideon den Herder plays a cello by Giuseppe dall‘Aglio and a bow attributed to Dominique Peccatte, all kindly provided on loan by the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation.
Eager to share their experience with the next generation of musicians, members of the trio have been teaching at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam since 2014.
It is true that these are three exceptional musicians. If Maria Milstein has a sensitive game [...], she also knows how to show dreadfully incisive [...] The warm cello of Gideonden Herder embraces us in the Adagio of Opus 11. Instinctive pianist Hannes Minnaar animates the discourse to strategic places by tiny text solicitations.
Classica, 31-5-2021
Including the arrangements of the Symphony No. 2 and the Septet, but also the Triple Concerto, the complete works patiently constructed by the Van Baerles is the most complete since the second of the Beaux Arts Trio (Philips).
Diapason, 01-5-2021
The Van Baerle Trio made that Beethoven journey from light to dark, from playful to serious.
Elsevier, 17-10-2020
The various individual CDs were already well received in Trouw, and it is nice to have collected them in a nice box.
Trouw, 21-8-2020
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