ELSIE SUDDABY (Soprano).
THE BUDAPEST Trio :
NICOLAS ROTH (Violin) ; GEORGE ROTH ('Cello) ;
ANDREAS PETRl (Pianoforte)
THE fourth of Beethoven's Trios for Piano,
Violin, and 'Cello was written in the country, the same summer (1808) in which he finished his great Fifth Symphony, the Pastoral Symphony,
' and the Choral Fantasia. He was thirty-seven years old, and his virile forcefulness and high spirits were at their highest. He had attained full mastery of expression, and the music he was then writing has tremendous directness.
This Fourth Trio, and one other, together form his Opus 70. The Fourth is written in three. separate Movements.