Brahms, Johannes - Horn Trio / Violin Sonata - Faust, Isabelle / Melnikov, Alexander

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Isabelle Faust, violin
Alexander Melnikov, piano
Teunis van der Zwart, natural horn

Brahms was especially fond of the sound of the natural horn, which he saw as the embodiment of Romantic lyricism. Although the valve horn had begun to replace it in the early 19th century, it was for the older instrument, the Waldhorn, that he wrote his Trio Op.40, today still the summit of the repertoire for its unusual forces. Here three young musicians attempted to reconstruct the trio's original sound as precisely as possible, with conspicuous success!