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This week cellist Raphael Wallfisch and violinist Sara Bitlloch join Donald Macleod to talk about Beethoven鈥檚 early chamber music from 1795 to 1811, including beloved works such as the 鈥楻azumovsky鈥� quartets, the 鈥楰reutzer鈥� violin sonata, and the 鈥楪host鈥� and 鈥楢rchduke鈥� piano trios.

Today they look at how Beethoven鈥檚 music, as it developed and became more complex, had the effect of turning chamber music professional: what he was writing was too challenging for amateur players, and often too serious for the salon.

We hear great music from the Razumovsky String Quartets, the Kreutzer Violin Sonata, the Septet and the Kakadu Variations.

The 鈥楻azumovskys鈥� were composed between April and November of 1806, at the end of what was an astonishingly productive three years of Beethoven鈥檚 life, when he produced a series of radically different masterpieces.

Piano Trio Op 121a, 鈥淜akadu Variations鈥�
Florestan Trio

String Quartet in F major No 7, Op 59 (鈥淩azumovsky鈥�) (4th movement)
Tak谩cs Quartet

Violin Sonata in A major No. 9 Op 47 ("Kreutzer") (1st movement)
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

Septet in E flat major for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass Op 20 (2nd movement)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

Produced by Iain Chambers for 大象传媒 Wales