Vienna Piano Trio: Brahms Series II

The Vienna Piano Trio’s Brahms series continues with the composer’s second work for the medium, completed some 28 years after his first. Brahms himself wrote to his publisher Simrock ‘You have not so far had such a beautiful trio from me and very probably have not published one to match it in the last ten years.’

The programme is completed by the last of Mozart’s six Piano Trios and Shostakovich’s work, composed in 1944 and described by one writer as ‘perhaps the greatest Piano Trio since Brahms’.