Duos & Trios

In 1887 Antonín Dvorák composed two terzettos for two violins and viola in quick succession as occasional compositions for amateurs. A little later, Dvorák arranged the second terzetto as four pieces for violin and piano ...

Bärenreiter’s new scholarly-critical edition of op. 87 edited by Christopher Hogwood is based on the score and parts from the first edition; where necessary he also consulted the autograph. The first edition parts were engraved after the ...

The “dumka” is a Slavic folk song or dance of a melancholy character.
Dvorák’s magnum opus in the piano trio genre takes its name from its “dumka” movements, which he composed in Prague in 1890-91.
After long hesitation Dvorák ...

Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Trio, his penultimate work, was composed in 1922-23 and published in June 1923. The three-movement work clearly shows Fauré’s ability to combine a transparent texture with charming and elegant themes.
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Bärenreiter’s revised, expanded and enlarged Urtext edition of Mozart’s Piano Trios contains not only the very latest findings based on the recently published Kritische Bericht to the volume in the New Mozart Edition, but also works not ...

In the context of his complete output, Bedrich Smetana’s chamber music has generally been felt to be of lesser importance. However, the modest number of works is deceptive; Smetana took a keen interest in the interpretation and study of chamber ...

Brahms’s famous Horn Trio op.40, composed in 1865 for the natural horn, is a work of considerable significance within the composer’s output. Up until now the work was believed to have a strong emotional connection to the death of his mother ...