Trio in D, Op. 70, No. 1 played by The Kutcher Trio
Samuel Kutcher (violin);
George Roth (cello) ; Harry Isaacs (piano)
Published in 1809, the same year as the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, Beethoven's Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70, No. I, used to be called the ' Ghost Trio ' because of its eerie slow movement. Sketches for this movement are to be found in one of Beethoven's sketch books immediately after a rough sketch of a witches' chorus intended for an uncompleted opera based on Shakespeare's Macbeth. The libretto, however, was abandoned by Collin, the author of the play Coriolanus, ' because it bade fair to be too gloomy '.