Brahms: Complete Trios Trio Gustav

• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Piano Trio, Op. 40 in E-Flat Major:
• 1 Brahms: Piano Trio, Op. 40 in E-Flat Major: I. Andante 07:59
• 2 Brahms: Piano Trio, Op. 40 in E-Flat Major: II. Scherzo. Allegro 07:08
• 3 Brahms: Piano Trio, Op. 40 in E-Flat Major: III. Adagio Mesto 07:30
• 4 Brahms: Piano Trio, Op. 40 in E-Flat Major: IV. Finale. Allegro Con Brio 06:15
• Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 87 in C Major:
• 5 Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 87 in C Major: I. Allegro 09:03
• 6 Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 87 in C Major: II. Andante Con Moto 08:12
• 7 Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 87 in C Major: III. Scherzo. Presto 05:00
• 8 Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 87 in C Major: IV. Finale. Allegro Giocoso 06:11
• Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 101 in C Minor:
• 9 Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 101 in C Minor: I. Allegro Energico 06:49
• 10 Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 101 in C Minor: II. Presto Non Assai 03:22
• 11 Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 101 in C Minor: III. Andante Grazioso 03:55
• 12 Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 101 in C Minor: IV. Allegro Molto 05:13
• Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8 in B Major:
• 13 Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8 in B Major: I. Allegro Con Brio (48kHz) 14:05
• 14 Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8 in B Major: II. Scherzo. Allegro Molto (48kHz) 06:32
• 15 Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8 in B Major: III. Adagio (48kHz) 07:55
• 16 Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8 in B Major: IV. Allegro (48kHz) 06:02
• Piano Trio, Op. 114 in A Minor:
• 17 Brahms: Piano Trio, Op. 114 in A Minor: I. Allegro (48kHz) 08:01
• 18 Brahms: Piano Trio, Op. 114 in A Minor: II. Adagio (48kHz) 07:43
• 19 Brahms: Piano Trio, Op. 114 in A Minor: III. Andantino Grazioso (48kHz) 04:43
• 20 Brahms: Piano Trio, Op. 114 in A Minor: IV. Allegro (48kHz) 04:40
• Total Runtime 02:16:18

Info for Brahms: Complete Trios

A complete collection of Brahms’s work for trio, illuminating the span of his career in new, Italian-made recordings. Over the course of almost 40 years, the greater span of his career, Brahms composed five trios in different instrumentations. Whereas he wrote piano sonatas and later symphonies within specific periods of his life, Brahms always returned to songs and to chamber music. The piano is the central, unifying presence in the trios, and often the dynamic engine driving their material forward.

Thus, this new collection takes the listener from the energy and passion coursing through Op.8, to the confident and allusive lyricism of Opp. 40 and 87, leading finally to a ‘late style’, exemplified by Op. 101 and 114, in which the music’s argument is more refined than ever, embodying a spirit of objective detachment. At the heart of this recording is the Gustav Trio, which programmes the classics of the repertoire in concert alongside less familiar repertoire from the Italian chambermusic tradition, featuring composes such as Busoni, Martucci and Wolf-Ferrari. Most of these late-Romantic names were decisively influenced by Brahms in their chamber-music output, and so in this sense the Gustav Trio is ‘coming home’ with this new recording.

The musicians of the Gustav Trio are joined here by colleagues Lorenzo Guzzoni (for the Clarinet Trio) and Boštjan Lipovšek (in the Horn Trio). Both musicians have worked with distinguished orchestras such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and La Scala in Milan.

As a quintet, they are also drawing on a rich Italian heritage of Brahms performance – from the Quartetto Italiano to Maurizio Pollini, Claudio Abbado and beyond.

There is something ‘authentic’ about Italian Brahms which translates itself not merely into a sensitivity to lyricism but also a careful handling of form – the larger span of works – to which the composer himself devoted his energy in search of art which conceals art.

Gustav Trio:
Francesco Comisso, violin
Dario Destefani, cello
Olaf John Laneri, piano
Lorenzo Guzzoni, clarinet
Boštjan Lipovšek, horn

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The Trio Gustav
was born from the desire of cellist Dario Destefano and violinist Francesco Comisso to continue their long-standing artistic partnership, already expressed in a previous piano trio, with the collaboration of internationally renowned pianist Olaf John Laneri.

In this formation, the three performers recognise a common ground in which the dialogue between the parts springs from the cult of sound and respect for form, thus devoting themselves both to the great chamber music literature composed for this formation and to the revaluation of that hidden treasure that is the Italian chamber music repertoire.

In addition to compositions by the great composers (Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Dvořák, Mendelssohn, Ravel and Šostakovič), the Trio Gustav casually combines works by composers such as Bossi, Busoni, Casella, Martucci and Wolf- Ferrari, with the aim of emancipating their own artistic Italian-ness in a repertoire that is far removed from the more common operatic tradition. The typically Italian instrumental virtuosity and the international concert experience of the three performers come together in a strong and sincere bond in the desire to make each performance charged with energy and interpretative elegance.

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