Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 & Piano Trio No. 1

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the Trio Wanderer and Gaugué give both pieces straightforward, strong-spined, no-nonsense performances, though fuller tone and some expansion of emotional engagement at both extremities would... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 22nd Jan 2016
Catalogue No: HMC902222
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 73 minutes

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

Work length41:37

Album only

I. Allegro con moto

Track length17:43

Album only

II. Scherzo. Allegro molto - Trio. Più lento

Track length6:28

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

III. Adagio ma non troppo

Track length8:06

$1.20

$1.50

$1.75

IV. Allegro molto agitato

Track length9:20

$1.20

$1.50

$1.75

Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60

Work length32:13

$5.00

$6.25

$7.30

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length10:05

$1.40

$1.75

$2.05

II. Scherzo. Allegro

Track length4:05

$1.00

$1.25

$1.45

III. Andante

Track length8:02

$1.20

$1.50

$1.75

IV. Finale. Allegro comodo

Track length10:01

$1.40

$1.75

$2.05

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Brahms almost completely rewrote his Trio Op. 8 35 years after its first performance – yet the rarely performed original version (recorded here) is a splendid example of the impetuous, fantastical universe of the young composer. Similarly, his intense self-criticism meant it took him 19 years to produce the definitive version of his Piano Quartet Op.60, perhaps the freest and most intimate of his three works for these forces.

The Trio Wanderer's Complete Piano Trios of Brahms [HMC901915/16 nla] was a Daily Telegraph CD of the Week: “A superb Brahms recital”, said Richard Wigmore, and Stephen Johnson in BBC Music Magazine opined: “This is some of the most elegant playing I have heard in Brahms’s chamber music…superb playing.”

Reviews

April 2016

the Trio Wanderer and Gaugué give both pieces straightforward, strong-spined, no-nonsense performances, though fuller tone and some expansion of emotional engagement at both extremities would perhaps have benefitted the total result

CD Review 23rd January 2016

I’m liking here the qualities that always attracted me to their performances of Brahms’ piano trios; an essential elegance, a lightness of touch and tone, that’s an immediate corrective to ideas of overweight Brahms.

March 2016

Violinist Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabedian offers playing that alternates sweetness of tone with bite, and cellist Rapahel Pidoux is able to sing out his lines with passion or dig deep into his earthy resonant lower register as required. Pianist Vincent Coq underpins it all with playing that is forthright but never overbearing…high-quality Brahms playing, highly recommended

31st January 2016

extremely lively and incisive

24th January 2016

The French Trio Wanderer air this youthful rarity and explore all its Brahmsian hallmarks, coupling it with the Piano Quartet of 1875, 20 years in the making, with viola player Christophe Gaugué enriching the mix of happiness and heartache.

1st February 2016

It’s the original that the Trio Wanderer addresses in this rich Brahms chamber pairing of the Trio and, with violist Christophe Gaugué, the Piano Quartet No 3 Op 60. There’s an opulent freshness in the Trio performance, warmly packaged within its shapely intelligence and golden expansiveness. The Quartet is gutsy and profound, sensitive and spacious.

Classical Ear 22nd March 2016

I find that Trio Wanderer and violist Christophe Gaugué – whose warmth of tone integrates well with that of his partners – offer a thoroughly recommendable interpretation of the Piano Quartet, Op 60. The intimacy of the writing is beautifully realised with experienced musicality, allowing the work’s inner sense of chiaroscuro to be fully appreciated. Harmonia Mundi’s natural recording acoustic seals an impressive release that I shall return to often.

Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 & Piano Trio No. 1

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