Brahms - Horn Trio
Isabelle Faust (Sleeping Beauty Stradivarius 1704), Alexander Melnikov (1857 Bösendorfer piano) & Teunis van der Zwart (Lorenz Waldhorn 1845)
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Building a Library, January 2021, Also Recommended
It's a superb version of the piece by any standard, the slow movements absolutely saturated in intense Romantic melancholy but fleet and agile in scherzo and finale. Faust and Melnikov and...
Brahms - Horn Trio
Isabelle Faust (Sleeping Beauty Stradivarius 1704), Alexander Melnikov (1857 Bösendorfer piano) & Teunis van der Zwart (Lorenz Waldhorn 1845)
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Awards:
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Building a Library, January 2021, Also Recommended
It's a superb version of the piece by any standard, the slow movements absolutely saturated in intense Romantic melancholy but fleet and agile in scherzo and finale. Faust and Melnikov and...
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Brahms was especially fond of the sound of the natural horn, which he saw as the embodiment of Romantic lyricism. Although the valve horn had begun to replace it in the early 19th century, it was for the older instrument, the Waldhorn, that he wrote his Trio Op. 40, today still the summit of the repertoire for its unusual forces. Here three young musicians, graduates of harmonia mundi, attempt to reconstruct the trio's original sound as precisely as possible.
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Awards and reviews
September 2008
It's a superb version of the piece by any standard, the slow movements absolutely saturated in intense Romantic melancholy but fleet and agile in scherzo and finale. Faust and Melnikov and scarcely less revelatory in the G major Violin Sonata… Very generous in terms of its duration, this is a disc where one truly feels every note has been given the space to make its effect.
Awards Issue 2008
Teunis van der Zwart used a natural horn from Lorenz built in 1845. He is an astonishingly accomplished and musical player, and he has a superb supporting team.
2011 edition
This is a unique performance [of the Horn Trio] and the result is a triumph, with 'stopped' notes adding to the range of colour, as the composer intended.
22nd August 2008
The whole performance [of the horn trio] has a lightness of touch and an athletic exuberance that are totally convincing.
