BBC Music Magazine 3 stars

美艺三重奏组辉煌而充满活力的演奏一直脍炙人口。如同柯曾—阿马德乌斯，他们也得益于第一流的数字录音。美艺的演出不仅“Con amore” (充满爱慕之情)，而且新意迭出,常演常新；音响（尤其是钢琴）特别有真实感。

专辑介绍
室内乐作品被认为是古典音乐中最精华的部分，但是大部分室内乐作品都不像交响曲÷协奏曲一样为人所知而且比较晦涩难懂。LZ认为室内乐入门最好的三首曲目分别是：贝多芬的大公三重奏，德沃夏克的美国四重奏和舒伯特的鳟鱼五重奏。这三首曲目覆盖了室内乐最常见的三种形式：钢琴三重奏，弦乐四重奏和钢琴五重奏，而且都有一个好记的名字，旋律优美，是室内乐入门的极佳首选。
《大公三重奏》（Beethoven piano trio No.7“Archduke”），是一首钢琴三重奏，是世界著名音乐大师贝多芬的重要作品。
这首乐曲，是贝多芬专为答谢鲁道夫大公而写的，这位维也纳大公，是贝多芬生活与创作的主要赞助人，因此称为《大公三重奏》。此曲首演于1814年，由贝多芬亲自担任钢琴演奏，而当时他几乎完全失聪了。
乐曲四部分，第一乐章就是轻快的进行曲，亲切流畅，如春风拂面，温和高贵而庄严。第二乐章是谐谑曲，极为活泼有趣，平实中有不经意又让人出乎意料的精致转调，活力十足，神采飞扬。第三乐章是变奏曲，由宽广而深情，逐渐加强，猛然跃入第四乐章，以舞曲般的回旋曲，让欣喜之情，形成了一片似乎永远唱不完、充满着生命之光的天地赞歌！（介绍来源于网络）

Almost without exception, these performances by pianist Wilhelm Kempff, violinist Henryk Szeryng, and cellist Pierre Fournier are the most magnificent, the most magisterial, the most monumental, and the most fun of any ever recorded of Beethoven's piano trios. Separately, Kempff, Szeryng, and Fournier were among the best Beethoven players of the middle years of the twentieth century, and together they play like old friends whose affection for each other and the music has only grown deeper over the years. And, of course, the amazing thing is that these were, for the most part, ad hoc performances, performances done in the studio for Deutsche Grammophon's 1970 Beethoven edition but performances that have withstood the test of time so well that DG reissued them for its 1997 Beethoven edition. From their emotionally extravagant Op. 1 trios through the superlatively balanced Op. 70 trios to their final grand and sublime Op. 97 trio, Kempff, Szeryng, and Fournier's performances are superb. And while one might quibble with the inclusion of the Beaux Arts Trio's stolid performance of Beethoven's arrangement of his septet, no one would quibble with the exquisite performance of Beethoven's arrangement of his Symphony No. 2 by Besch, Brandis, and Boettcher. And the inclusion of every work Beethoven wrote for piano trio only increases the set's value.