TRIO SONATAS fell out of fashion long ago: composers haven’t written them for over 150 years. But lockdown is the ideal time to rediscover them, as we argue in a piece in this week’s issue of The ...

Trio Sonata in D Minor, Op. 2 No. 1, HWV 386b: I. Largo Trio Sonata in D Minor, Op. 2 No. 1, HWV 386b: II. Allegro Trio Sonata in D Minor, Op. 2 No. 1, HWV 386b: III ...

The piece was first performed in Warsaw by two outstanding musicians, violinist Paweł Kochański and pianist Artur Rubinstein, on 3rd April 1909. "as such it must be the greatest instrumental work of ...

Brahms’ D minor sonata, Opus 108, is the third of three sonatas for violin ... and Bedrich Smetana’s Piano Trio. Hungarian-born Hummel was a student of Mozart’s, and even lived in his house for a time ...

The star instruments of Trio Sonata, which gave the final candlelight performance at Musikfest last night, are oboe and flute. The guitar solos and spices, and it also signals key and mood changes.

An A-list team of performers makes a spirited, intermittently winning but finally unpersuasive case for Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A Minor. This oddly structured work consists of an expansive sonata ...

Compared to the vivacious lightness of touch in the first, G major Sonata of Op. 31, the second is, as its nickname suggests, a stormy work. The name, as so often in Beethoven's piano sonatas, was not ...