Next Sunday, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio—"one of the world’s most successful chamber ensembles"—will be performing the Complete Beethoven Piano Trios in a series of 3 concerts in a single day, a rare first for New York City. Brattleboro, Vermont beat us to the punch last weekend but the review from the Barre/Montpelier Times Argus certainly heightens the anticipation.

...the works [were] largely in chronological order. The middle one proved the most rewarding. The closing “Ghost” Trio was intense, powerful and moving. But the real beauty was found in the joyful performance of the B-flat Trio, Opus 11, and the sublime lyricism in its adagio. In the “Kakadu” Variations, Opus 121a, the three reveled in the overt expressiveness, and the string sound in the lyrical passages was touchingly sweet. Throughout, the trio delivered the power of Beethoven.

The opening concert, the three early trios, was the longest, and an interesting mixture of passionate and reserved, but the slow movements were all beautifully expressive. In the final concert, the E-flat Trio, Opus 70, No. 2, was full of life, with Laredo’s warm playing of the allegretto ma non troppo exquisite. And the closing “Archduke” was full of emotional intensity and grandeur.

Piano Trio No. 3 in C-minor, Opus 1, No. 3, Allegro con brio