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Complete Piano Trios (Dover Chamber Music Scores)

Brahms's twenty-four chamber works include a number of the most acclaimed masterpieces in the repertoire, and his piano trios — including the famous Horn and Clarinet Trios — are among the most admired, performed, and recorded of all. This edition, reprinted from the definitive one prepared by Hans Gál for Breitkopf & Härtel, presents all five of these brilliant works in an inexpensive yet fine-quality volume.Included are the B Major, C Major, and C Minor Trios (Opp. 8, 87, and 101) for violin, cello, and piano; the E-flat Major Trio (Op. 40) for violin, horn (or cello or viola), and piano; and the A Minor Trio (Op. 114) for clarinet (or viola), cello, and piano.Designed to afford both amateur and professional musicians a lifetime of pleasurable study, this fine, carefully made edition will also provide music lovers of every level of accomplishment the opportunity to follow a live or recorded performance, score in hand: an ideal way to savor the special riches of these superb musical masterworks.

Series: Dover Chamber Music Scores

Paperback: 288 pages

Publisher: Dover Publications (September 1, 1988)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 048625769X

ISBN-13: 978-0486257693

Product Dimensions: 9 x 0.6 x 12 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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The First Trio, Opus 8 in B Major as all initial Brahms (the Piano Sonatas, the First Symphony)all get off to great heights,like claiming territory, and the young Brahms still had that Schumann aesthetic searching for private moments, a working away from the Beethoven conception of symphonic largesse.So Brahms' chamber setting have initially some challenge and interest, but he seemed to repeat himself too often,lumbering at materials that in retrospect had little to offer his own magical aesthetic. There are dollips of illuminations(as Tovey might say).I recall a Vintage recording,on RCA Artur Rubenstein, Yasha Heifitz and Fournier??,I forgot the cellist, wonderful telescoping, everyone listened to each other,and made the work compelling, in fact I've yet to hear it played even approaching it. The lyricism in the opening 'Allegro con brio' here is unforgettable,perhaps the key of B major suggests this or brings things out of composers that other Keys cannot or refuse to; the main melodic materials,really a broken resonant chord, the major sixth interval; gorgeous stuff filled with anxiety, the opaque,and the question of art; as well in the more violent turbulent rhytmic passages,like Brahms is saying "things are not that nice in Hamburg living as a bachelor" Although he thought Bismarck was quite progressive. Glad that Johannes remained a composer his life.

Complete Piano Trios (Dover Chamber Music Scores) Piano Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 and Piano Quintet No. 1 (Dover Chamber Music Scores) Quintet and Quartets for Piano and Strings (Dover Chamber Music Scores) String Quartets, Opp. 20 and 33, Complete (Dover Chamber Music Scores) Eleven Late String Quartets, Opp. 74, 76 and 77, Complete (Dover Chamber Music Scores) Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano: With Separate Violin Part (Chamber Music Scores) Complete Piano Transcriptions from Wagner's Operas (Dover Music for Piano) by Liszt, Franz, Classical Piano Sheet Music (1981) Paperback Cello Sonata, Violin Sonata and Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp (Dover Chamber Music Scores) Five Late String Quartets (Dover Chamber Music Scores) Concerto in B Minor Op. 61: with Separate Violin Part (Dover Chamber Music Scores) String Quartets, Opp. 42, 50 and 54 (Dover Chamber Music Scores) Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64: with Separate Violin Part (Dover Chamber Music Scores) Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5: with Separate Violin Part (Dover Chamber Music Scores) Chamber Symphony No. 1 for 15 Solo Instruments, Op. 9 (Dover Music Scores) String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 (Dover Chamber Music Scores) Pribaoutki, Renard and Ragtime for Eleven Instruments (Dover Chamber Music Scores) Piano Concerto, Op. 38: Study Score (G. Schirmer's Edition of Scores of Orchestral Works and Chamber Music) Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks in Full Score (Dover Music Scores) Claude Debussy Piano Music 1888-1905 (Dover Music for Piano) Russian Piano Music: 44 Pieces by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Mussorgsky and Others (Dover Music for Piano)