Rautio Piano Trio Records Beethoven Cycle

Rautio Piano Trio Records Beethoven 

Jane Gordon violin Victoria Simonsen cello Jan Rautio piano

The Rautio Piano Trio are at the halfway point of recording all of Beethoven piano trios on fortepiano and gut strings and are seeking your help to complete the cycle!

Volume 1 was released in 2022 and has been played on BBC Radio 3, having received glowing 4 and 5 star reviews, including 5 stars in the BBC Music Magazine. You can listen online here to volume 1: Spotify

Volume 2 will to be released in March 2024. Here's our trailer:

We are now fundraising to continue our journey and record the middle period piano trios for the next two discs using the wonderful Graf fortepiano from the Wigmore Hall.

Our artistic vision aims to be innovative and imaginative with our recording choices. The Beethoven trios have been widely recorded before but there are very few on historical instruments, and a complete cycle is extremely rare - we’ve only found one other from the 1990s.

To read more about the Rautio Trio please visit our website: Rautio Piano Trio

Beethoven Cycle Fundraising 

Recording the complete cycle of piano trios in 4 discs

Stage 1: Early piano trios (discs 1 & 2) COMPLETED

Stage 2: Middle period piano trios (disc 3 & 4) FUNDRAISING

Fundraising February/March 2024

We are now fundraising for the next two discs which will complete our Beethoven Cycle. The cost of making a recording includes producer, sound engineer, studio hire, specialist strings, piano hire and piano technician. These costs are high when compared with our personal incomes as musicians.

Recording is important to us as it helps us reach a wider audience with our music available on CD and distributed worldwide online. This also results in an increase of concert opportunities in new venues and an increase in supporters. 

How to support & rewards offered

The Rautio Trio welcome donations to support their Beethoven Cycle. We can’t meet our goal without your help and we are fundraising for the third disc now. Any amount is gratefully received and in return to show our appreciation, we would like to offer a variety of rewards:

£50 + donation - signed copy of the CD, plus your name printed in the CD booklet (unless anonymity is preferred)

£100 + donation - signed copy of the CD, plus your name printed in the CD booklet (unless anonymity is preferred), 2 free tickets to the launch concert

£250 + donation - the above rewards PLUS invitation to attend an open rehearsal

£500 + donation - the above rewards PLUS two VIP tickets to a Rautio Trio concert of your choice 

£1000 + donation - the above rewards PLUS the trio will perform a private house concert for you and your guests

Donations go towards our production costs for volume 3. If you would like to get in touch with us please email. Thanks in advance for your support and we hope to see you at one of our concerts soon!

Jane, Victoria & Jan