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...with the sell-out crowd around you: all are mesmerized, transformed if you will, by the beauty of what they hear. On stage, the Beaux Arts Trio performs the world's greatest chamber music, with a virtuosity attainable only by a very few individual musicians, and by no other piano trio in existence...
...From the piano bench, Menahem Pressler glances over his shoulder at his two companions, violinist Isidore Cohen and cellist Bernard Greenhouse, each seemingly lost in concentration. Yet the audience hears what the musicians themselves feel: that they are not three performers, but one--one spirit bringing three instruments into unison. Each man is sensitive to the varying moods of his two companions: if one shows signs of interpreting the piece in a special way, the other two pick up on it and follow his lead. "The raising of an eyebrow, the way a phrase is constructed," explains Greenhouse, "can tell...
...Upon Guilet's retirement in 1968, Cohen joined the Beaux Arts after ten years as a violinist for the distinguished Julliard String Quartet. Today the group plays over 125 concerts each year, at least half abroad. They are unanimously acclaimed on five continents as chamber music's greatest living piano trio, noted for their vitality and ever-fresh sound. After a quarter-century of play, this freshness shows no sign of waning...
...Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann, and Dvorak. For their efforts, the Beaux Arts have won numerous recording prizes, including the Deutscher Schallplatterpreis, the Grand Prix du Disque, and Gramophone's Record of the Year. The latter was awarded in 1980 for their monumental 14-album set of the complete 43 Haydn piano trios, many of which were previously unavailable to the listening public. Gramophone called this work, eight years in the making, "a landmark in the history of recorded chamber music." Their Silver Anniversary recording of Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio is a current bestseller...
...subscription, concert tomorrow evening, for which tickets are still available. The program, which is the same for both tonight's and tomorrow's concerts, is perhaps the most exciting the Beaux Arts Trio has ever presented at Harvard. It begins with the Haydn Trio No. 27 and the Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1, with guest violist Samuel Rhodes. The group will then be joined by bassist Georg Hortnagel for a performance of the famous Schubert "Trout" quintet, an all-time favorite among chamber music lovers. Hortnagel is flying in from Munich just for this special occasion...