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John Williams John Williams
1932-

Air and Simple Gifts
(for clarinet, violin, cello and piano)
2009
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In any narrative—epic, dramatic or musical—every word or tone should be like a soldier marching towards the one, common, final goal: conquest of the material. The way the artist makes every phrase of his story such a soldier, serving to unfold it, to support its structure and development, to build plot and counterplot, to distribute light and shade, to point incessantly and lead up gradually to the climax, in short the way every fragment is impregnated with its mission towards the whole, makes up this delicate and so essential objective we call FORM. Ernst Toch

Brahms, Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8

January 8th, 2006

Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897

Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8, 1854, revised 1890

Johannes BrahmsIn 1854, laboring under the “curse” of Schumann’s glowing predictions for Germany’s new rising star, a young twenty-one year old Brahms decided to publish his first chamber composition, the Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8. This was no small undertaking: Brahms was a fierce self-critic and is known to have consigned several early chamber works to the fire. Thirty-five years later, in 1890, with all but a few final works ahead, the mature, master Brahms returned to the same trio compelled to revise. With his characteristic humor, Brahms claimed, “I didn’t provide it with a new wig, just combed and arranged its hair a little”. His changes were in fact substantial: « more »


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