Brahms: Piano Trios Nos. 1-3

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Their performance of Brahms’s three Piano Trios are gratifyingly expansive and red-blooded. They appear to have undertaken this project not for business but for pleasure. This is perhaps most... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 15th Sep 2017
Catalogue No: 88985407292
Label: Sony
Length: 86 minutes

Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87

Work length28:43

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Emanuel Ax (piano), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

Allegro

Track length9:50

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Andante con moto

Track length8:03

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Scherzo: Presto

Track length4:48

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Finale: Allegro giocoso

Track length6:02

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Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101

Work length21:02

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Emanuel Ax (piano), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

Allegro energico

Track length7:28

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Presto non assai

Track length3:51

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Andante grazioso

Track length4:05

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Allegro molto

Track length5:38

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Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8

Work length36:12

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Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

Allegro con brio

Track length14:34

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Scherzo: Allegro molto

Track length6:31

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Adagio

Track length8:30

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Finale: Allegro

Track length6:37

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World-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his long-time collaborator, pianist Emanuel Ax, are joined by violinist Leonidas Ka-vakos in their first recording together of all three of the piano trios of Johannes Brahms. Ma and Ax have built together a distinguished catalogue of Brahms recordings, but this is their first recording of the Piano Trios and their first collabo-ration with Kavakos. Of the three Brahms Piano Trios - Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8; Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87; and Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101 – the Second and Third Trios were written and first performed in quick succession (1882 and 1883), both exam-ples of Brahms at his creative zenith. The same can be said of the First Trio: originally completed when he was twenty, in 1854, and premiered the following year, Brahms thoroughly rethought and revised it in a new version premiered early in 1890. That more elegant and concentrated version of a youthful work has become the standard for the First Trio, and it is the version performed on the recording by Ma, Ax and Kavakos. All three performers have been acclaimed for their interpretations of Brahms, as soloists and as colleagues. Between them, Ma and Ax have shared four Grammy Awards® for their recordings of Brahms’s chamber music.

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Christmas 2017

Their performance of Brahms’s three Piano Trios are gratifyingly expansive and red-blooded. They appear to have undertaken this project not for business but for pleasure. This is perhaps most evident in the inner movements…There’s impeccable musicality and considerable relish in these performances, but there are more searching accounts.

21st September 2017

The quality of their playing is never in doubt, and the ensemble is faultless. There’s tremendous authority in the assertive movements...but there could be something more personal in the more wistfully introspective ones.

Brahms: Piano Trios Nos. 1-3

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