What a fortunate circumstance! Although Johannes Brahms destroyed all his sketches, drafts, and early versions of many of his works, the Trio in B major op. 8 managed to survive his pyromaniac verdicts. A comparative study of the youthful and romantic first version and the tightly constructed late version of this masterpiece offers a most highly interesting insight into Brahms’s artistic development Thirty-five years later, however, he thoroughly revised it. Along with the Trio in C minor op. 101, the early version rounds off the Vienna Piano Trio’s complete recording of this great composer’s piano trios- now heard for the first time in full in the latest three-dimensional Super Audio quality. Here the Vienna Piano Trio is of course in its element. It is absolutely fascinating how these three full-blooded musicians convey the Viennese and Hungarian flair of these works. The high-resolution Super Audio album is also perfectly balanced and offers a crystal-clear stereo sound as well as a breathtaking listening experience in three-dimensional multichannel technology- musical pleasure representing the highest level!