Brahms Hoorntrio
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Johannes Brahms’s Horn Trio can easily be called a masterpiece of romantic chamber music. Horn player Jonathan Vanderbeek, pianist Kirsten Gedeshi and violinist Emile Daems combine their deepest musicality and technical craftmanship and take you on this emotional rollercoaster of Brahms.
What is now considered an established work in the chamber music repertoire, was, in Brahms’s time, a very unusual line-up. This did not stop him from using this Horn Trio to make an instrumental and musical statement. The hallmark of this work is the heartwrenchingly moving adagio, in which Brahms processed his grief for his late mother with brilliant music. Many consider this one of the most stunning slow movements in his oeuvre.
Hans Abrahamsen almost seems to be the Danish reincarnation of Johannes Brahms. Both belonged to a select group of composers playing the horn. Both composers also liked to retreat into nature for inspiration. Like many of his Scandinavian predecessors, nature is a source of inspiration, and he seeks a natural, almost childlike simplicity that is often absent from the works of other composers in the second half of the 20th century.
The trio, consisting of Leuven resident Jonathan Van der Beek (horn), Emile Daems (violin) and Kirsten Gedeshi (piano), was founded within the walls of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. They combine their deepest musicality, their technical mastery and craftmanship to perform one of the most celebrated and majestic chamber music pieces by Brahms, together with the lesser-known Six pieces for horn, violin and Piano by Hans Abrahamsen. Despite the 120-year gap between both pieces, this trio builds a bridge between two pieces by composers who might have more in common than one would think at first glance.
