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Brahms, Schumann, Reinecke: Chamber music for French Horn - de Waal

Brahms, Schumann, Reinecke: Chamber music for French Horn - de Waal

Channel Classics  CCS SA 34014

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Chamber


Brahms: Horn Trio
Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op. 70
Reinecke: Trio for Clarinet, Horn & Piano in B flat major, Op. 274

Jasper de Waal, horn
Candida Thompson, violin
Hans Colbers, clarinet
Frank van de Laar, piano


In late 1853, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) made the acquaintance of Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and his wife Clara. Schumann was quick to recognise the genius of the then entirely unknown twenty-year-old composer, and devoted the October issue of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik to a laudatory article about him under the revealing title Neue Bahnen. Schumann hailed Brahms as ‘an innovative musical force’ who would offer ‘an astonishing glimpse of the secrets of the world of the supernatural’.

In retrospect, of course, we must put matters into perspective. For it was Richard Wagner, rather than Brahms, who was to explore new musical paths in the second half of the nineteenth century. Moreover, Brahms was averse to any form of spirituality – it was the manic-depressive Schumann who had a craving for esotericism and was plagued by hallucinations: only a few months later, weary of life, he jumped into the Rhine and thereafter spent the last two years of his life in a psychiatric clinic. Whether the awakening close relationship between Brahms and Schumann’s wife Clara played a role, remains a matter of conjecture.

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