The Station Trio: Frank Thomas (Violin), Ronald Harding (Violoncello), Hubert Pengelly (Pianoforte)
Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3
First and Second Movements

The last of the three Trios which make up Beethoven's Opus I is conspicuously bigger both in conception and in actual dimension than the other two, and at the very beginning of the first movement there is sounded a note of deeper seriousness than anything in them. It has, however, its moments of real brightness, and even of good spirits, too.