Joseph Haydn: Divertimentos in G and C major, Hob. IV:7–8
Haydn developed a sideline writing for the growing commercial market. There was a lot of money in selling new works, or repackaging parts of old ones, like in these divertimentos.
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Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
Brahms’s Piano Trio No. 1 is a youthful work. But the piece we hear today was revised in 1889, 35 years later, at the pinnacle of his career.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 1, No. 1
The sharp opening of Beethoven’s first piano trio announced to the world that a new, important composer had arrived: it was this piece that he chose to publish as his Op. 1, No. 1.
Maurice Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 1
This is the first and less famous of Ravel’s two violin sonatas, published long after his death, in 1975.
Maurice Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello
Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello is a tour-de-force, its thin instrumentation jacked up with blazing string crossings, piercing harmonics, and snapping pizzicatos.