BRAHMS, JOHANNES

Een garantie voor een succesvolle uitvoering van de onvolprezen Piano Trio's van Brahms? Drie grote Brahms liefhebbers die ook als solist geprezen zijn voor hun Brahms interpretaties. Zet bijeen cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Emanuel Ax en violist Leonidas Kavakos en deze trio's komen op briljante wijze helemaal tot leven! De langdurige samenwerking van Ma met Ax is te horen aan die immer aanwezige diepe consequente warmte en wisselwerking in hun spel. Dit is hun eerste opname van de Brahms Trio's in samenwerking met sterviolist Kavakos. Het Trio No.1 is de door Brahms in 1890 gereviseerde versie. De opening liet hij gelukkig in tact. Alleen al dit gedeelte rechtvaardigt de aankoop van dit album! Zowel het Trio No.2 (opening is pure magie) als het Trio No.3 zijn voorbeelden van superieur samenspel en getuigt van flexibiliteit, inzicht en frisheid.

Brahms: Piano Trios Nos. 1-3 (Complete)

Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano)

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.