NOSPR Chamber Music / Zambrzycki / Kurzac-Kotula / Bies / In Half-Light, Sotto Voce

Beethoven's Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70 No. 1 acquired its nickname from Carl Czerny, who associated its second movement with the apparition of Hamlet’s father’s ghost in Shakespeare’s play. The atmosphere of this movement seems to foreshadow the Romantic fascination with the supernatural.