A much welcomed edition to the Piano trio literature. Includes an informative introduction (Eng/Ger) and a critical commentary (Eng).

In addition to Bärenreiter’s scholarly-critical editions of Brahms’trios, an arrangement of Brahms’ String Sextet Op.18 for Piano trio by his contemporary and friend Theodor Kirchner is now being published. Simrock, Brahms publisher, issued it in 1883. Brahms respondedto the arrangement of his sextet with total enthusiasm and praise for the skills of his friend Kirchner (1823 1903). Christopher Hogwood’s scholarly-critical edition includes an introduction which sheds light not just onthehistory of the arrangement and its validity in its own right, but also on Kirchner and his relationship to Brahms.