played by Max Rostal (violin), Sela Trau (cello), Louis Kentner (piano)
Brahms's Piano Trio No. 1, in B, Op. 8, was originally published in 1854 and is therefore his first really ambitious work. But in 1891 he published a revised version that, except for the Scherzo, was virtually a new work. New thematic material was added to the principal themes of the three other movements and each movement reconstructed. The result is, as H. C. Colles points out, that in the progress of development the open countenance of youth becomes lined with the experience of age '.