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

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Piano Trio No. 45 in E-flat major, Hob. XV:29 (1797) 00:00 - Poco allegretto 07:29 - Andantino ed innocentemente 10:33 - Finale. Allemande (Presto assai) Trio Wanderer: Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian (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 post-London 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