Brahms and Schumann Trios‎

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The lives of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms intersected on multiple occasions, and always intensely. Schumann, publisher and music critic as well as composer, promoted the young Brahms via the press; his wife Clara mentored Brahms who was obsessively self-critical of the works he composed and often discarded or rewrote them until he felt satisfied with the result. His Piano trio No. 1 in B major is a good example of Brahms’ perfectionist obsession, although he composed a remarkably different version of it in 1889.

Schumann’s Piano trio No. 1 in D minor brings the energy, vivacity and character diversity of militant German romanticism within a classical form that is constantly challenged. Schumann’s spirit is very present in Wolfgang Rihm’s Fremde Szenen, a series of piano trios that recall tradition but join it with the fluidity of modernity.

Program

• Robert Schumann: Piano trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63 (1847) 31'
• Wolfgang Rihm: Fremde Szenen III (1983-84) 15'
• Johannes Brahms: Piano trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 (1854) 37'

Performers

• Nicola Benedetti (violin)
• Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
• Alexei Grynyuk (piano)

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