Under the direction of JOHAN HOCK
Relayed from
Queen's College, Birmingham
NORRIS STANLEY
(violin)
JOHAN HOCK
(violoncello)
BEATRICE HEWITT
(pianoforte)
Brahms's first piece of chamber music was the Piano Trio, Op. 8, which appeared in 1854, when he was twenty-one. Thirty-seven years later he gave the world a revised version of it, and a comparison of the two throws a flood of light on his growth to artistic maturity. The broad openings of the first and last movements are kept in the new version, but the movements which grow out of these melodies are quite new in every way. It is the second version which is now almost always played.