Arthur Foote - PIano Trio No. 1, Op. 5 (1883)

Arthur William Foote (March 5, 1853 in Salem, Massachusetts – April 8, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts)[1][2] was an American classical composer, and a member of the "Boston Six." The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, and Horatio Parker.

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PIano Trio No. 1, Op. 5 (1883)

Dedication: Herrn George Henschel freundschaftlich gewidmet.

1. Allegro con brio (0:00) 2. Allegro vivace (9:31) 3. Adagio molto (14:35) 4. Allegro comodo (23:21)

Arden Trio

 

The piano trio was dedicated to Sir Isidor George Henschel (18 February 1850 – 10 September 1934) who was a German-born British baritone, pianist, conductor, and composer. His first wife Lillian was also a singer. He was the first conductor of both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He was a close friend of Johannes Brahms, whom he met in May 1874 at the Lower Rhenish Music Festival in Cologne, where Henschel sang the role of Harapha in Handel's oratorio Samson. The friendship lasted until Brahms's death; Henschel reports in his memoirs that he arrived in Vienna only hours too late to see Brahms before his passing, and that their last meeting had been at a restaurant in Leipzig in 1896, where they were joined by Edvard Grieg and Arthur Nikisch.

 

Piano Trio No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 65 (1907-08)

I. Allegro giocoso II. Tranquillo III. Allegro molto

Joseph Silverstein, violin Jules Eskin, 'cello Virginia Eskin, piano