Joseph Haydn, Piano Trio No. 45 in E flat major, Hob. XV:29

Franz Joseph Haydn (17321809) Piano Trio No. 45 in Eflat major, Hob. XV:29 (1797) 00:00 Poco allegretto 07:29 Andantino ed innocentemente 10:33 Finale. Allemande (Presto assai) Trio Wanderer: JeanMarc PhillipsVarjabédian (violin), Raphaël Pidoux (violoncello), Vincent Coq (piano) The final work of the set for Therese Jansen (Bartolozzi), No. 45 in E flat (Hob. XV:29), and perhaps the last of all Haydn s compositions for the medium (musicologists disagree on the chronology of the London and postLondon trios, and the Jansen group may or may not have been written before the two isolated trios 41 42 published in 1795 and 1797 respectively), returns to the method of the Gypsy Rondo trio, with two slowish movements working up to a spirited finale which is the hit of the work. It opens with a spacious Poco allegretto that artfully combines song and variation forms: the B section in the minor is in fact a variant of the theme of the A section. The beautiful slow movement, whose harmoni