Cambini trio concertant op 33

Giuseppe Maria Cambini (13 February 1746 — 1825) composed 6 Trios for Violin, Viola and Cello, Op.33. Giuseppe Cambini was born in Naples, but settled early in his life in Paris, where he became a well known musician, teacher and composer of an astonishing quantity of works, mainly of instrumental chamber music. A true composer of the Galant Style, in Parisian spirit.

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VIDEO: Cambini-String Quartet Nº3 in B minor-Quartetto Le Ricordanze
 

Giardini Trios Op 20 no 2

Felice Giardini (April 12, 1716 – June 8, 1796) was an Italian composer and violinist. Giardini was a prolific composer, writing for virtually every genre which then existed. His two main areas, however, were opera and chamber music. Virtually all of his music is out of print with the exception of a few songs and works of chamber music. As a string player, he knew how to make string instruments sound their best. His chamber music combines the so-called Style Galant with the mid-18th-century classicism of J.C. Bach, the Stamitzes and the Mannheim school. In the Style Galant, the writing emphasizes the soloistic qualities of the instruments, rather than integrated part-writing, to create a whole. Giardini, although he did write string quartets and quartets for other instruments — a new and evolving form at the time — concentrated on writing trios, primarily those for violin, viola and cello, of which he wrote at least 18. First Publication of string trios op 20 in 1778.

Cannabich Trio Op 3 No 1

Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich (Mannheim, bapt. 28 December 1731 - Frankfurt am Main, 20 January 1798), was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era. A composer of some 200 works, he continued the legacy of Johann Stamitz and helped turn the Mannheim orchestra into what Charles Burney described as "the most complete and best disciplined in Europe.". The orchestra was particularly noted for the carefully graduated crescendos and diminuendos characteristic of the Mannheim school. Together with Stamitz and the other composers of the Mannheim court, he helped develop the orchestral texture that paved the way for the orchestral treatment of the First Viennese School. Trio in B-flat major, Op. 3, No. 1 (for 2 violins and cello) I. Andante con espressione II. Allegro Published in 1773, when Cannabich was around 42

HAYDN Trio, Divertimento in b minor

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Divertimento (String Trio) No. 3 in b minor, Hob. V:3 (for 2 violins and cello) I. Adagio II. Allegro III. Tempo di Menuetto Composed c. 1767, when Haydn was around 35 years old.

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BOCCHERINI Trio Op 2 No 4

Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (February 19, 1743 – May 28, 1805) was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. The String Trios Op 2 are six pieces composed early in his life. All composed for two violins and cello.

Dvořák, Terzetto in C major, Op. 74 for 2 Violins and Viola

Dvořák wrote the terzetto in a few days in January 1887. Two violins and viola is an unusual combination of instruments: it was written to be played by violinists Josef Kruis and Jan Pelikán, with the composer playing viola. Josef Kruis was a chemistry student who rented a room in the same house where the Dvořák family lived; he was taking violin lessons from Jan Pelikán, who was a member of the National Theatre Orchestra. The music proved to be too difficult for Josef Kruis, so Dvořák wrote an easier work for the same instruments, now known as Miniatures (in Czech: Drobnosti) Op. 75a (B. 149). He arranged this as a work for violin and piano, entitled Romantic Pieces. The first public performance of the Terzetto in C was on 30 March 1887 in Prague, given by Karel Ondříček (brother of the virtuoso violinist František Ondříček), Jan Buchal and Jaroslav Šťastný. It was published in 1887 by Simrock WIKIPEDI

VIDEO: Nikolaj Znaider (Violin), Boris Kuschnir (Violin), Gérard Caussé (Viola) Divonne Festival -- 29th of May, 2003

 

Brahms - Trio in A minor op.114

The Clarinet Trio in Am, Op. 114 is one of four chamber works composed by Johannes Brahms featuring the clarinet as a primary instrument. It was written in the summer of 1891 for the clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld, and is considered by scholars as part of a rebirth for the composer who in 1890 declared his String Quartet in G Major to be his final work. On his fifty-eighth birthday, Brahms was busy writing his will to his publisher, initially providing for his siblings and stepmother, and secondly for his landlord and faithful landlady, Celestine “Mandy” Truxa. Shortly afterwards, when visiting the Ducal Court in March 1891, he was deeply fascinated by the beautiful playing of the clarinetist, Richard Mühlfeld. The serious mood of his later compositions was made appropriate by the tone of the instrument. To emphasize how much he loved his performance, Brahms called Mühlfeld his Fräulein Klarinette, or “his dear nightingale.” Following his performance, Brahms wrote the score of the Clarinet Trio and sent it to his beloved landlady. In addition, a historical painter, Adolf Menzel was in the audience during the first performance of Brahms’ Op. 114 on December 12th, 1891, with Robert Hausmann on cello and Brahms on piano. Menzel was so moved that he made a sketch of Mühlfeld as some sort of Greek god, saying to Brahms, “We often think of you here, and often enough, comparing notes, we confess our suspicions that on a certain night the Muse itself appeared in person for the purpose of executing a certain woodwind part. On this page I have tried to capture the sublime vision.” The following month they had a triumph with the public premiere in Berlin. VIDEO: Martin Fröst clarinet, Clemens Hagen cello, Leif Ove Andsnes piano, International Chamber Music Festival, ICMF 2010,

Brahms: Piano trio in B major, op.8

The Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8, by Johannes Brahms was composed during 1854. The composer produced a revised version of the work in 1889.[1][2] It is scored for piano, violin and cello, and it is the only work of Brahms to exist today in two published versions, although it is almost always the revised version that we hear performed today. Among the piano trios known to have been written by Brahms it is the only one that ends in a minor key. It is also among the few multi-movement works to begin in a major key and end in the tonic minor (another example being Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony). WIKIPEDIA 

VIDEO: Piano trio No.1. Munich Artistrio in Radovljica (Slovenia) Concert, 16. february 2013; Matjaž Bogataj, violin; Maruša Bogataj, cello; Katharina Khodos, piano
 

Schubert Piano Trio no. 2 in E flat major, op. 100 (D. 929)

The Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin, and violoncello, D. 929, was one of the last compositions completed by Franz Schubert, dated November 1827. It was published by Probst as opus 100 in late 1828, shortly before the composer's death and first performed at a private party in January 1828 to celebrate the engagement of Schubert's school-friend Josef von Spaun. The Trio was among the few of his late compositions Schubert heard performed before his death. It was given its first private performance by Carl Maria von Bocklet on the piano, Ignaz Schuppanzigh playing the violin, and Josef Linke playing cello. WIKIPEDIA VIDEO: Zhang Zhang - Violin, Paul Katz - Cello, Georgi Slavchev - Piano. Performed in Duncan Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University.

SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1

The Trio No. 1 in B-flat major for piano, violin, and cello, D. 898, was written by Franz Schubert in 1827. The composer finished the work in 1828, in the last year of his life. It was published in 1836 as Opus 99, eight years after the composer's death. Like the E-flat major trio, it is an unusually large scale work for piano trio, taking around 40 minutes in total to perform. WIKIPEDIA

VIDEO: Istomin Stern Rose play Schubert Trio No. 1 in B flat Op. 99