Piano Trios (previously attributed to Joseph Haydn)-Two Piano Trios for Violin Cello and Piano. Previously attributed to Joseph Haydn now known to have been composed by Ignaz Pleyel. Authoritative Henle Urtext edition of Trio In C and Trio in F as edited by WolfgangStockmeier.

L'éditeur Jacques Durand, qui avait publié quelques années auparavant le célèbre Trio de Ravel, suggère en 1922 à Fauré d'écrire un trio, qui sera son avant-dernière partition. Le compositeur ne dépasse tout d'abord pas le stade de quelques esquisses et réfléchit un temps à mettre une clarinette à la place du violon. Ce n'est que durant son séjour estival à Annecy-le-Vieux en Savoie qu'il réussit à composer l'Andantino, mouvement central élégiaque d'une ampleur inhabituelle. Suivent les premier et troisième mouvements qu'il écrit durant l'hiver suivant, à Paris. L'édition Urtext de ce morceau de maturité aux contours et aux lignes claires, qui offre un bel équilibre entre le piano et les instruments à cordes, représente un ajout de poids dans le catalogue de musique française de G. Henle Verlag. / Violon, Violoncelle Et Piano

When Smetana composed his Piano trio in the autumn of 1855 it was an act of catharsis to recover from the death of his four-year-old daughter Friederike. This highly emotional work was also his first large-scale piece of chambermusic. Its first public performance in December 1855 was regrettably not a great success and so Smetana embarked on a protracted process of reworking it. By the late 1850s it had reached its current form. Smetana always liked toperform it but only found a publisher for it in 1880 when one of his pupils invited the Hamburg publisher Hugo Pohle to a performance at short notice. Smetana specialist Milan Posp Å¡il has based this Henle Urtext edition on thefirst edition by Pohle but has also drawn upon the earlier sources. This has enabled him to iron out numerous inconsistencies found in the first edition.

Piano Trio no. 1 in d minor op. 49. Mendelssohn is considered a self-critical composer, who repeatedly reworked a number of his pieces until he deemed them worthy to be published. The path to his first Piano Trio was particularly rocky: only after several attempts was he able to complete it in the summer of 1839: it appeared in 1840 after further revisions. This perfectionism paid off, for Mendelssohn?s d minor Trio was immediately received with enthusiasm. Robert Schumann wrote: ?It is the master trio of the present day, like those of Beethoven in Bb and D and that of Franz Schubert in Eb were in their time: a very beautiful composition which after years will still delight grandchildren and great-grandchildren.? Which was to prove true: even today, it numbers among the most popular works in the trio repertoire in general. The trio, taken from the volume Mendelssohn · Piano Trios HN 957, is now available from Henle for the first time also as a practical single edition.

Les trios avec piano comptent parmi les grands genres de la musique de chambre classique et Brahms s?y consacra très tôt. Il composa son opus 8 au cours de l?automne et de l?hiver 1853/54 c?est-à-dire à l?âge de 20 ans. Par contre ses deux autres trios avec piano op. 87 en Ut majeur et op. 101 en ut mineur ne virent le jour que 28 et 32 ans plus tard. On sait que pa-rallèlement au trio en Ut majeur Brahms travaillait aussi à un autre trio en Mi bémol majeur qu?il détruisit probablement. En 1889 il décida de reprendre son premier trio avec piano et le remania à tel point qu?il écrivit à Clara Schumann: «J?ai réécrit mon trio en Si majeur». L?édition Henle-Urtext reprendle trio op. 8 dans la seconde version parue en 1891 mais pro-pose également la première version en annexe.

Debussy composed this work in summer 1880 in Fiesole Italy when he was 18 years old. At the time he was the musical travelling companion of Nadescha von Meck Tschaikowsky’s famous patroness. Most of the autographmaterial was thought to have been lost and was only discovered over 100 years later in 1982 in the estate of Debussy’s pupil Maurice Dumesnil. When Henle published the first edition in 1986 the music world welcomed theTrio with open arms. Ensembles rushed to play it and numerous recordings followed. Although formal conventions prevail the work displays a melodic freshness as well as inflections and phrases that are typical ofDebussy.