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Brahms B Major Piano Trio

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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The Revised Version of Brahms' Transitionary Music

This is Brahms at his most straightforward, fascinating considering all this music was written near the end of his career. It seems as if the melancholy of the second theme has been transformed into almost rage and a youthful aggression. Now the music is completely lost itself, with syncopations in the piano distorting where we are in the beat. We seem to be building to something absolutely terrifying.

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