Brahms: Horn Trio Op.40 [Melnikov, Faust, van der Zwart] (Period instruments) 

This is the best recording of this piece by miles. The sound of the horn's stopped notes adds a whole new dimension that is missing from performances on modern instruments.

I performed this piece many times during my career with the Horn. Most fun was in Salzburg in the summer of 1985…with a wonderful Japanese pianist who jumped in at the last minute because the original pianist took sick. The violinist was the assistant concertmaster of the Munich Philharmonic. I had a great time and played also on the natural horn. The balance problems that occur with a modern instrument are much fewer with the „Naturhorn“ but you still need a violinist who is not afraid to „dig in“. I have some reservations about the tempi in the Scherzo and the final movement. The opening movement I found quite convincing…the Adagio not so much but still very good. However, Brahms wasn’t a friend of rushed tempo. He wanted every single note to be perceptible. I know this piece inside and out…but someone hearing the two faster movements for the first time might be dazzled by the virtuosity but miss a lot of the wonderful details. This piece is one of Brahms‘ most inventive and passionate works…it needs room to breathe.

Truly a wonderful trio! I played the piano part to this in college when I was 20. What a thrill that I had met both a French hornist and a wonderful violinist! Chamber music was the most wonderful aspect of my undergraduate piano major pursuits! I LOVE music and though it has been a rough life, music has always been and will always be my salvation! Thank you Brahms and all composers for your beautiful souls and musical spirits!

The adagio mesto is one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces I have ever heard. I absolutely love it, and every other part of the piece. I absolutely love listening to Teunis van der Zwart. Really makes me love the natural horn

20:27 Magical moment. I love how it anticipates the following movement's main theme.

I was actually, physically freezing shivering at the end of the adagio mesto and warmed right back up by the finale. This man was a great genius, all those moments of torturous self-doubt should have been wiped out by this piece alone.

It's a natural horn! Unbelievably perfect intonation!

One perhaps can not grasp Brahms at first glance because he is difficult with his themes harmony and rhythm. He is a master of his music. I love Brahms his style is unique.

I usually have some trouble with Brahms, not really "feeling" his pieces until after repeat listens. This is not one of those times. I don't think Brahms has ever hit me with immediate enjoyment like this before, especially the rhythmically playful fast movements. And such a lively, impassioned performance!

Amazing how the written f in the horn give such a "lontano" effect. Beautiful rendition.

What a modern artist, i love this trio!!

This is the piece in my young years that SOLD me on Brahms....Still brings tears......had to learn all his chamber music....HAD TO! performed the piano part many times. most gratifying piano writing ever. of course there's an alternate viola part for the horn. Thank you GOD@!!!!!! dg viola. piano, organ, guitar, etc

What a great piece! What a great composer! What great players! What great instruments! How great that you put the sheets!

Danke vielmals für das Präsentieren der Noten. Erst daraus wurde mir klar, wie anspruchsvoll der Klavierpart ist! Hut ab vor allen, die so etwas spielen können! Ein wunderbares Stück in wunderbarer Wiedergabe!

Un capolavoro. Una registrazione bellissima!

Un verdadero Maestro! El adagio es una página perfecta en la historia de la música.

What a revelation! I usually am not a fan of this work because it always sounds like the musicians are trying to say something that is not there resulting in an incomplete interpretation. What a joy this recording is to listen to over and over again!

Johannes Brahms:Esz-dúr Kürttrió Op.40 1.Andante 00:00 2.Scherzo:Allegro - Molto meno allegro 08:00 3.Adagio mesto 15:04 4.Finálé:Allegro con brio 22:48 Isabelle Faust-hegedű Alexander Melnikov-zongora Teunis van der Zwart-kürt

This piece and its overall sadness in spite of being in a "major" key makes sense when you realize Brahms wrote this in response to the death of his mother.

Great piece, awsome performance! Many thanks for the upload.

Bellissimo brano e bellissima esecuzione!

Johannes Brahms; The Emperor of Romantic chamber music

3:23 whole tone scale... 8:53 reminds me 16th century music for a few seconds

8:00 10:23 16:46 22:48 28:01

I really like the dactylic rhythmic and melodic motive of this piece (although it sounded like anapest to me initially - somehow the double quavers sounded like a strong beat?) 😊 Beautiful music 💕

WOW!

I can’t play the right and the left hand together bc my brain can’t count 2 different beats at once. Help

Dear friends, i´m learning this peace by now, and just very curious, why on minute 2:33 piano playing es2 instead of es1, how it written?

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22:48

メモ 2:15▶︎5:06

Nice performance....however, it doesn't sound like a fortepiano---wouldn't be historically accurate either.

Faust and her horrible, fractured, anemic, weedy sound.

WAY too fast and loud. What's your hurry? How Brahms would have laughed!