Trio in B, Op. 8, for violin, cello, and piano
(Revised in 1891) played by Eda Kersey (violin)
James Whitehead (cello)
Kathleen Long (piano)
This broadcast of Brahms's Trio No. 1 in B is the first of a series of broadcasts which covers the whole of Brahms's trios, from the present one to the Trio in A minor for piano, clarinet, and cello.
An interesting event in the series is a broadcast of the Piano Trio in A major, which was composed about the same time as the B major and was lost until 1924, when it was first performed at the Rhenish Chamber Music Festival.
The Trio you will hear this evening 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.