Emanuel Ax - Brahms: The Piano Trios '2017

Tracks list

Tracklist

CD1
01. Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87: Allegro
02. Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87: Andante con moto
03. Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87: Scherzo: Presto
04. Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87: Finale: Allegro giocoso

CD2
01. Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101: Allegro energico
02. Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101: Presto non assai
03. Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101: Andante grazioso
04. Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101: Allegro molto
05. Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8: Allegro con brio
06. Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8: Scherzo: Allegro molto
07. Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8: Adagio
08. Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8: Finale: Allegro



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. 

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