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Brahms B Major Piano Trio

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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The Last Movement of the ABA Form by Brahms

The ABA form comes to an end in B major, right where we started. The cello gets the starring role here again as a kind of intense and darker mirror version of the opening theme of the piece. We have no idea where the downbeat is, and the music seems to have lost all of its sense of stillness from earlier on. It's the most melancholy music we have heard so far, another preview of the last movement to come.

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