Antonín Dvořák's career was significantly advanced by Johannes Brahms, who recommended him for Austrian State Awards and encouraged his publisher to take his early works.
Critical Reception
Biographers often assumed Dvořák's 1876 Piano Trio in G minor, Op 26, was a memorial to his daughter Josefa, who died shortly after birth, despite no indication from the composer.
Composition History
The Elegy by Josef Suk was originally composed for the unusual combination of string sextet with harp and harmonium, but was later re-scored for piano trio.
Composition History
Dvořák's Piano Trio in B flat major, Op 21, though published as his first piano trio, was actually his third, as he had destroyed two earlier attempts.
Performer Biography
The Florestan Trio, the performers on this album, received Britain's Royal Philharmonic Society Award for chamber music in 2000, the first time it was given to a piano trio.
Composition History
Josef Suk's Elegy, Op 23, was written in 1902 for a memorial event celebrating the life of Julius Zeyer, a writer of novels and epic poems steeped in Bohemian history and legends.
Composer Biography
Josef Suk, a favorite composition pupil of Dvořák at the Prague Conservatoire, later married Dvořák's daughter Otilie.
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