What are your favourite piano trios ?

[teamsaint]

As a build up to the big one, next week's BaL on the Brahms Op 8, some of us, well me actually, thought it would be fun to do a thread on favourite Piano Trios. Haven't had one of these in a little while,so what better subject? Everybody loves them so I suggest 3 each, there is plenty of scope for that I think.

Bit off the top of my head, but for me:

Dvorak: Dumky
DSCH. (No2) Op 67
Ravel.

No doubt some great ones I haven't got round to yet .

[Beef Oven]

Beefoven, 'Archduke' & 'Ghost'. No question.

If I have to choose a third - Dumky, The vorjax

[Stillhomewardbound]

Winifred Attwell, Russ Conway and Mrs.Mills!!

Er, sorry, I'll get me coat!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Three"?

Three??!!

... I can't narrow down my favourite Piano Trios by Haydn alone to a measly three!

I can give you my three favourite words ("gnu", "frisson" and "and") but not Piano Trios; too many sublime (ohh ... there's number four!) examples of human genius that it is an insult to our species to miss them out.

I mean, there's even five "Piano Trios" that don't match the "Violin, 'cello, Piano" combo:

Mozart: Kagelstatt Trio
Beethoven: Op 11
Brahms: Op 114
... all for Clarinet, 'cello & Piano

Brahms: Op 40
Ligeti: Trio (for the same ensemble - Horn, Violin & Piano - as Brahms')

... and I haven't even mentioned Bach's Violin Sonatas!



Apart from that, good thread, ts!

[teamsaint]

some of the fun of these threads is changing your mind, Ferney.....I am already feeling guilty about the Smetana !

And as for Haydn...well that is just more work that I need to do !

[Ferretfancy]

some of the fun of these threads is changing your mind, Ferney.....I am already feeling guilty about the Smetana !

And as for Haydn...well that is just more work that I need to do !

teamsaint, working your way through the Haydn Trios will certainly be a longish task! I have the fine Beaux Arts Trio set from Philips, and sample them from time to time by random dipping in to the 43 in the box!

[aeolium]

Mozart: Kagelstatt Trio
Beethoven: Op 11
Brahms: Op 114
... all for Clarinet, 'cello & Piano

Mozart wouldn't like you replacing his beloved viola with a cello, ferney

Yes, there are far too many wonderful trios to be confined to three but if forced to at gunpoint (and assuming ts was referring to the conventional piano trio ensemble of piano, violin and cello) I would go for:

Mozart: K542 in E major
Beethoven: op 70 no 2 in E flat major
Schubert: D898 in B flat major

with apologies to Haydn, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovitch, etc etc

[teamsaint]

Mozart wouldn't like you replacing his beloved viola with a cello, ferney

Yes, there are far too many wonderful trios to be confined to three but if forced to at gunpoint (and assuming ts was referring to the conventional piano trio ensemble of piano, violin and cello) I would go for:

Mozart: K542 in E major
Beethoven: op 70 no 2 in E flat major
Schubert: D898 in B flat major

with apologies to Haydn, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovitch, etc etc

I did assume the conventional set up...and FF's point about the Haydn I am well aware of...daren't even think about them....need to buy a 24 hour clock !

[LeMartinPecheur]

For anyone who's been over-exposed to Dvorak's Dumky, try his F minor Op 65

For purists it's a proper 4-movement pf trio too - not too much of that Czech dancey stuff

[Nick Armstrong]

As a build up to the big one, next week's BaL on the Brahms Op 8, some of us, well me actually, thought it would be fun to do a thread on favourite Piano Trios. Haven't had one of these in a little while,so what better subject? Everybody loves them so I suggest 3 each, there is plenty of scope for that I think.

Bit off the top of my head, but for me:

Dvorak: Dumky
DSCH. (No2) Op 67
Ravel.

No doubt some great ones I haven't got round to yet .

For me:

DSCH No. 2
Ravel
Fauré

But with Mozart Kegelstatt, Schumann and Brahms (the horn and clarinet ones as well as the piano ones) very very close to hand...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Mendelssohn D minor
Tchaikovsky A minor

[vinteuil]

Many of the Haydns, obvi...

When I'm feeling strong, some of the Beethovens.

I wd also put a word in for the piano trios of Hummel - lovely performances by Voces Intimae

[ahinton]

Haydn: lots of them!
Mozart: C major / B flat major
Beethoven: Op. 70, 1 & 2, Archduke
Schubert: both
Mendelssohn: D minor
Schumann: No. 2
Chopin
Alkan
Brahms: C major
Smetana
Tchaikovsky
Saint-Saëns: No. 2
Fauré
Chausson
Arensky: No. 1 (never heard No. 2)
Lekeu
Reger: E minor
Rachmaninov: both
Ravel
Bridge: C minor & No. 2
Ireland: No. 3
Roslavets: 2, 3 & 4
Sabaneyev: No. 2
Bush (A): Three Concert Studies
Shostakovich: No. 2

There must be others but these are off the top of my head; surely they'll do for now!

[Nick Armstrong]

Looking forward to seeing what the stewards make of that flagrant (but fascinating) breach of the rules, ahinton!! (I suspect teamsaint won't be reaching for the red card, though - too much to follow up on... The Bridge works, for instance... Don't know those at all, suspect I'd like em )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There must be others but these are off the top of my head; surely they'll do for now!

I'd swap your Tchaikovsky for the Ives, and wouldn't be without the Schubert Notturno - but the Bridge, Ireland and Roslavets trios I've never heard - and I'd never previously encountered Sabaneyev.

See what happens if we don't limit ourselves to "three"!