The fourth album in Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, and Emanuel Ax’s Beethoven for Three series features Shai Wosner’s arrangement of the Symphony No. 1, as well as the “Ghost” (Op. 70, No. 1) and “Gassenhauer” (Op. 11) piano trios. In this series, the three beloved artists perform the symphonies on three instruments alongside the composer’s canonical piano trios, giving audiences a rare look at Beethoven’s compositional language at its most intimate and raw—all while conveying the power and immediacy of his orchestral works. “We all feel that being able to participate in a symphony is such a wonderful thing to do,” says Ma. “One of the things that is really important to do today is to actually go back to the first principles of music, the simple interaction between friends who want to do something together.”