Frederick Grinke (violin) ; Florence Hooton (violoncello) ; Dorothy Manley
(pianoforte)
Frederick Grinke , Florence Hooton , and Dorothy Manley began playing together at the Royal Academy of Music, where they were students. Between them they carried off most of the prizes for solo and chamber music playing.
Frederick Grinke is a Canadian. He won an open scholarship for the violin at the age of fifteen and then came to London to finish his studies at the Royal Academy. A member of the London Symphony Orchestra, for some time he also played second violin in the Kutcher Quartet.
Trio in C, Op. 87 Brahms
I. Allegro ; 2. Andante con moto ; 3. Scherzo; 4. Finale
Brahms composed twenty-four chamber works, ranging from sonatas for clarinet and piano to string sextets, all of which are the finished products of his genius. Professor Tovey suggests that these works only represent a quarter of what Brahms composed, since the composer destroyed innumerable works that he did not consider worthy of publication.
The second of Brahms's three piano trios, in C major, was written in 1882, and therefore represents the terse, concentrated, and dramatic Brahms of his last period. The first three of the four movements are designed on a big, almost epic, scale, while the finale is concise in form and pointed in expressive qualities. Writing of the first movement, Professor Tovey says that ' the style is grandly energetic with deep shadows of mystery, the mystery of nature rather than romance
Five Lieder:
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Three Nocturnes for Trio Bloch Trio No. 2, in E minor (in one movement) ................ Ireland