IDAGIO | Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8 - Bridge: Phantasie Piano Trio in C Minor 9120040730765

Featuring

Hyung-ki Joo
Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne
Thomas Carroll
Johannes Brahms
Frank Bridge

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Composition History

Johannes Brahms's Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8, was first published in 1854 when he was 21, and he extensively revised it 35 years later in 1889.

Composition History

Frank Bridge's Phantasie No. 1 for piano, violin, and violoncello won a chamber music competition in 1907, sponsored by wealthy industrialist W. W. Cobbett, beating 66 other entrants.

Composer Biography

Brahms was known to burn much of his music that he felt did not meet his high standards, making the survival of works like the 1854 version of his Trio Op. 8 fortunate.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Much of Brahms's music, including his Trio Op. 8, is arguably inspired by his suppressed passion and unresolved love for Clara Schumann, the wife of his friend Robert Schumann.

Instruments

Thomas Carroll, the cellist on this recording, plays a cello made by Enrico Ceruti (1806-1883), who is considered the last in the line of the great Cremona instrument makers.

Critical Reception

Frank Bridge's Phantasie No. 1 was praised by its competition sponsor, W. W. Cobbett, for its "remarkable beauty and brilliance" and its "lavishness" of thematic material.

Historical Context

In 1889, the same year Brahms finished revising his Piano Trio No. 1, he became the first composer ever recorded, with his voice and piano playing of his Hungarian Dance No. 1.