Brahms: The Complete Piano Trios

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Overall, these musicians have an especially strong and fine sense of line. The Horn Trio is full of echt-Romantic vistas and half-lights...The Clarinet Trio is a revelation: not at all the austere,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Nov 2012
Catalogue No: SU40722
Label: Supraphon
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

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

Work length19:59

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Smetana Trio

I. Allegro energico

Track length6:54

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II. Presto non assai

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III. Andante grazioso

Track length4:14

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IV. Allegro molto

Track length5:28

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

Work length28:02

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I. Allegro

Track length9:38

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II. Andante con moto

Track length7:42

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III. Scherzo. Presto

Track length4:32

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IV. Finale. Allegro giocoso

Track length6:10

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Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114

Work length23:53

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Ludmila Peterková (soloist), Jan Páleníček, Jitka Cechová
Smetana Trio

I. Allegro

Track length7:30

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II. Adagio

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III. Andantino grazioso

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IV. Allegro

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

Work length36:30

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Smetana Trio

I. Allegro con brio

Track length15:24

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II. Scherzo. Allegro molto

Track length6:22

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III. Adagio

Track length8:06

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IV. Allegro

Track length6:38

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Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat major, Op. 40

Work length28:18

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Přemysl Vojta (soloist), Jana Vonášková-Nováková, Jitka Cechová
Smetana Trio

I. Andante - Poco piu animato

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II. Scherzo. Allegro

Track length7:15

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III. Adagio mesto

Track length6:40

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IV. Finale. Allegro con brio

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New CD from BBC Music Magazine Award Winning Smetana Trio.

Following on from the recording of the complete trios of Antonin Dvořak (Supraphon), the renowned and critically acclaimed Smetana Trio have taken the logical step of recording a Johannes Brahms album of the same ilk. As a pianist, Brahms earned admiration back in his childhood and later on many occasions even premiered his own pieces. Almost four decades span the first trio Brahms wrote, at the age of twenty, and the last. Besides piano trios in the traditional configuration, he composed a trio for horn and a trio for clarinet. The sound of the horn, an instrument Brahms himself played, was reputedly loved by the composer’s mother and he wrote the horn trio as a response to her death. Brahms created the clarinet trio for the celebrated clarinettist Richard Muhlfeld, whom the composer esteemed immensely.

The Smetana Trio’s guests on the new recording are the outstanding clarinettist Ludmila Peterkova and the superlative horn player Přemysl Vojta, winner of the ARD Munich competition (2010) and holder of a Beethoven Ring. Brahms with the tenderness and engrossing romantic expressiveness of the Smetana Trio.

Recorded at the Martinek Studio, Prague, June 2011 (Trios Nos 2&3, Clarinet Trio) and June 2012 (Trio No. 1, Horn Trio).

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April 2013

Overall, these musicians have an especially strong and fine sense of line. The Horn Trio is full of echt-Romantic vistas and half-lights...The Clarinet Trio is a revelation: not at all the austere, reserved piece it often seems, but deeply poetic and full of late autumnal colours.

May 2013

there is spontaneous engagement with the music and such a heroic sweep to the playing...(Peterkova's clarinet playing in the Op. 114 Trio is absolutely magical)...The Smetana Trio is thus at or near the top of my short-list of relatively recent recordings of these glorious works.

April 2013

What the Smetana may lack in polish they make up for in exciting raw edged playing. This rather sets them apart from other ensembles.

Brahms: The Complete Piano Trios

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