PROGRAMME & PERFORMERS
György Ligeti Trio for horn, violin & piano (Hommage à Brahms)
Johannes Brahms Trio for horn, violin and piano
in Eb major, op. 40
György Ligeti composed his Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano in 1982 and it had its world première in 1983 during the 150-Year Brahms Celebration in Hamburg. Although the work carries the title Hommage à Brahms, it has – as Ligeti himself explains – “not much to do with Brahms; it refers to Brahms perhaps only with a certain similar conservative attitude – with clear ironic distance.” In May of 1865 Johannes Brahms retreated to the picturesque seclusion of Baden-Baden in Germany’s Black Forest. It was here that Brahms composed his Trio in E-flat Major for Horn, Violin, and Piano. Blending adventure, nostalgia, and lament, Brahms’ Horn Trio is music of nature.
