Brahms Clarinet Trio in a minor Op. 114 (1891)

Alasdair Beatson, piano
Florent Héau, clarinet
Eckart Runge, cello
Live Recording 'Brahms190' 11 Nov 2023 Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore by Rolton Productions
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Alasdair Beatson
Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson is renowned as a sincere musician and intrepid programmer. He champions a wide repertoire with particular areas of interest: classical, early romantic and French music (especially Fauré), alongside the music of today’s composers. A prolific chamber musician, Alasdair’s colleagues include Steven Isserlis, Pekka Kuusisto, Viktoria Mullova, Pieter Wispelwey, the Doric, Gringolts and Meta4 string quartets, and the Nash Ensemble.
Recent recordings include works of Beethoven and Schubert for violin and fortepiano with Viktoria Mullova, and a solo piano recital Aus Wien on Pentatone. These join a discography of solo and chamber recordings on BIS, Champs Hill, Claves, Evil Penguin, Pentatone and SOMM labels. Performances during 2022/23 include regular appearances at Wigmore Hall, and at festivals including Cheltenham, Ernen, Festivalta, Lewes, O/Modernt, Resonances, Spitalfields and Yellowbarn. Alasdair is artistic director of the chamber music festival at Musikdorf Ernen in Switzerland.
Florent Héau
Florent Héau has established himself as one of the most important figures of the French clarinet school; a brilliant tradition he perpetuates worldwide through concerts and master-classes. Florent has appeared as a soloist with European Camerata, Orchestre de Picardie, Orchestre de la Basse-Normandie, Orchestre de Nancy, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra and Prague Chamber Orchestra, amongst others.
Over the years, Florent has enjoyed continuous success with his recordings of various programs, including Sonatas by Brahms and Reger with Patrick Zygmanowski, the Trios of Beethoven with Jérôme Ducros and Henri Demarquette, pieces for clarinet and strings by Nicolas Bacri, the chamber works of Mozart with Manfred Quartet, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with the Prague Chamber Orchestra and the music of Argentinean composers Piazzolla and Guastavino with pianist Marcela Roggeri.
Florent serves as clarinet professor at the Paris CRR and Lausanne HEMU, and guest professor at the Osaka College of Music in Japan and Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China.
Eckart Runge
Eckart Runge has established himself as one of the most versatile cellists of his generation. After marking the characteristic profile of the internationally-acclaimed Artemis Quartet for three decades, Eckart left the quartet in 2019 for new artistic challenges - with prestigious concert series such as BASF Ludwigshafen (2022), ‘Die Glocke’ Bremen (2022-24) and Konzerthaus Berlin (from 2024) appointing him as Artist-in-Residence.
His first solo-album with the radio orchestra Berlin (RSB) released in 2020 featured the world premiere recording of Nikolai Kapustin’s jazzy cello concerto Op. 85 as well as the passionate 1st concerto by Alfred Schnittke and was awarded the prestigious ‘Prize of German Music Critics’.
In 2021, his Duo Runge & Ammon released a new album ‘Revolutionary Icons’ (Berlin Classics) exploring Beethoven in the reflection of revolutionary rock-pop-jazz icons like Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Miles Davis.

[@brianjohnson9222]

In my 76 years I have heard countless performances of Brahms Op 114. This is an outstanding performance. Wonderfully recorded with superb balance between the three equal instruments. Also can I thank you giving details of the wonderful performers.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

So beautiful, I have it an old CD, but nice to see it almost "live". Thanks, Tang Tee Khoon. And thanks all three fantastic musicians.

[@JD..........]

I never knew Voldemort was such a sensitive cellist!

[@anamedeiros43]

Maravilhosa essa maneira de tocar. Quanta delicadeza nos gestos, nas expressões para produzir um som mavioso.