Composer: Johannes Brahms
Performer: Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Sony
Release: 2017
Size: 1.43 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87
01. Allegro
02. Andante con moto
03. Scherzo
04. Finale
Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101
05. Allegro energico
06. Presto non assai
07. Andante grazioso
08. Allegro molto
Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8
09. Allegro con brio
10. Scherzo: Allegro molto
11. Adagio
12. Finale: Allegro
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.