Trios pour piano

Description

After a first recording devoted to Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, awarded a Diapason d’Or, the three young musicians of Trio Talweg - the French violinist Sébastien Surel, the Belgian cellist Sébastien Walnier and the Franco-Brazilian pianist Juliana Steinbach - take on the masterpieces of Brahms’s chamber music, with the complete set of his trios for piano and strings. The composition of these three masterful works spans a broad period of Johannes Brahms’s creative life - from the impassioned first version of Opus 8 written by a twenty-year-old man (1853) to the two trios of maturity, Opus 87 (1880-1882) and Opus 101 (1886), followed by the profound reworking of Opus 8 (1889) by a creator at the height of his art. It is this final version of the first trio, which admirably combines youthful impulses and the composer’s narrative power, that Trio Talweg performs at the opening of its complete set.