Beethoven 250: Chamber Works

From https://oae.co.uk/people/beethoven/

As I explained in the January 24, 2020 post, I purchased the Naxos collection of Beethoven's complete works, which I plan to listen to this year, leading up to Beethoven's 250th birthday on December 16.

I made a little more progress during the past few weeks, passing the halfway point of the 90 CDs. Here are the contents of discs 42-46. ("WoO" means "Werke ohne Opuszahl"---"Works without opus number"---and "Hess" refers to Willy Hess, a Swiss musicologist who compiled a catalogue of Beethoven's works in the 1950s.)

 

42 

Piano Trios in E flat major, Op. 38, WoO 37 and WoO 38, Hess 49  (1791?, 1803?)

Piano Trio in G major, WoO 37 (1786)

Piano trio in F minor (fragment) (1816)

43

Piano Quartets, WoO 36, Nos. 1-3 (1786)

44

Piano Quartet in C major, Op. 16 

Piano Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flaf major, Op. 16

45

String Trios, Op. 9, Nos. 1-3 (1798-1798)

Trio Secondo, Hess 28 (1798-1800)

46

String Trio in E flat major Op. 3 (c. 1794)

Finale: Allegro, Hess 25 (early version of the finale of the Op. 3 string trio)

Serenade in D major, Op. 8  (1796-97)

I stopped here, because discs 47-53 contain Beethoven's string quartets, a famous "landscape" of the composer's oeuvre which I've only listed to once or twice, and not lately. 

As I wrote in the last post, Beethoven wrote a lot of chamber music, 31 discs' worth out of the 90 on this set. 

Here is an interesting article about Beethoven's own quartet of instruments: https://tarisio.com/cozio-archive/cozio-carteggio/beethovens-quartet/