Brahms Vienna Piano Trio

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In an exclusive Turner Sims series, Associate Artists the Vienna Piano Trio present Brahms’ complete piano trios.

VIENNA PIANO TRIO: david mccarroll violin, matthias gredler cello, stefan mendl piano

BRAHMS I

BRAHMS II

BRAHMS III

Thursday 26 November 8pm

Tuesday 16 February 8pm

Thursday 5 May 8pm

CPE bach Piano Trio in B flat, Wq 89/1

mozart Piano Trio in G, K564

Haydn Piano Trio in E, Hob XV/28

rebecca clarke Piano Trio (1921)

brahms Piano Trio No 2 in C, Op 87

Ravel Piano Trio (1914)

brahms Piano Trio No 1 in B, Op 8 (revised version 1889)

shostakovich Piano Trio No 2, Op 67

Frank bridge Phantasie for piano trio (1907)

Brahms’ version of his first work dates from more than 30 years after its composition in 1854. Dissatisfied with his original effort he wrote to Schumann’s widow Clara With what

Completed some 28 years after his first, Brahms himself wrote to his publisher Simrock of his second work for the medium You have not so far

childish amusement I whiled away the beautiful summer days you will never guess. I have rewritten my B major Trio....

It will not be as wild as before - but will it be better?

An Introduction to Brahms by Richard Wigmore 7pm

had such a beautiful trio from me and very probably have not published one to match it in the last ten years.

The programme is completed by the last of Mozart’s six Piano Trios and Shostakovich’s work, composed in 1944 and described by one writer as perhaps the greatest Piano Trio since Brahms.

Brahms Piano Trio No 3 in Cminor, Op 101 Brahms’ last work for the medium was composed in 1886 whilst on holiday in the Swiss resort of Hofstetten. Bridge’s competition-winning work established his chamber music credentials among the younger generation of British composers. Ravel’s only Piano Trio references dance rhythms of his Basque country homeland, poetic forms originating in Malaya, and a passacaglia in the manner of Bach.

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