Some folks look down their noses at Beethoven's Triple Concerto, considering it inferior to the composer's five incomparable piano concertos and single, incandescent one for violin. But distinguished performers have a way of making the Triple Concerto sound like a top-drawer work for violin, cello, piano and orchestra that abounds in tunefulness and brilliance.
That's likely to be the result at the season-finale production of the Concert Artists of Baltimore, which includes the Triple Concerto with a strong lineup of soloists - Ann Schein, an invariably imaginative pianist and valued member of Peabody's faculty; Earl Carlyss, the noted violinist who was in the famed Juilliard String Quartet for 20 years (and also happens to be Schein's husband); and Thomas Kraines, a fine cellist who has also taught at Peabody.
