Trio H-Dur Nr. 1 Op. 8 (Urfassung) (1989)

"This disc recommends itself in many ways. At the least, it gives us the only current recording (one of the rare ones, at any rate) of Brahms' original composition of 1854, rather than the extensive revision of 1890. The early Brahms is much wilder, less concerned with architectural proportion and more with getting the listener's jaw to drop at the audacity of the ideas. From the opening bars, these people play from Brahms' heart. They sail over the difficult issue of balance in piano trios in general as if it didn't exist. Each movement is beautifully shaped, with continually changing balance and a profound use of dynamics to elucidate structure. Furthermore, the emotional level of the playing is - appropriately for Brahms - mature. Theodor Kirchner is best known as Brahms' friend and the arranger of the two string sextets into piano trios. On the basis of the Novellettes, he is either a mighty miniaturist or a composer of symphonies temporarily finding himself in small forms." (classical.net)

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