Choose artist...
Home   >   Projects   >   Mendelssohn Piano Trios
Joshua Bell | Steven Isserlis | Jeremy Denk

Mendelssohn Piano Trios

Sony Classical
Release Date: October 25, 2024

Press Release

Read press

Artist Details

Read bio

Website

Visit
1 Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49: I. Molto allegro e agitato  
2 II. Andante con moto tranquillo  
3 III. Scherzo: Leggiero e vivace  
4 IV. Finale: Allegro assai appassionato  
5 Trio No. 2 In C Minor, Op. 66: I. Allegro energico e con fuoco  
6 II. Andante espressivo  
7 III. Scherzo. Molto allegro quasi presto  
8 IV. Finale: Allegro appassionato  
9 Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49: II. Andante con moto tranquillo (Original Version)  
Show all tracks
Hide

Violinist Joshua Bell reunites with two of his favorite collaborating artists and friends – cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk – for Sony Classical’s new recording of the piano trios of Felix Mendelssohn, available now digitally and on CD on October 25 – presave and preorder here.  

The new recording follows a unique all-Brahms collection For the Love of Brahms – released by Sony Classical in 2018 – that was also a collaboration of Bell, Isserlis and Denk.

Of the new Mendelssohn Piano Trio recording, Joshua Bell notes: “Steven Isserlis and Jeremy Denk have been my most cherished chamber music partners for decades.  They bring seemingly limitless imaginations and uncanny musical intelligence to every work I have had the privilege of exploring with them. It is my hope that our mutual joy for playing chamber music and, in particular, our shared deep love for the genius of Felix Mendelssohn comes through in this recording of these Piano Trios. I am forever grateful for having the opportunity to make this album.”

The two Mendelssohn trios – No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49 (1839) and No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66 (1845) – are regarded as being among the composer’s masterpieces.

  • Bell, Denk, Isserlis set for Schaefer Center, as part of 'An Appalachian Summer Festival' / MountainTimes.com
    Posted At: July 17, 2024
    MountainTimes.com's JERRY SNOW writes….Violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Jeremy Denk and cellist Steven Isserlis will perform together at the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, July 18 starting at 7 p.m. as part of An Appalachian Summer Festival.It is a Broyhill Classic Concert Series and is sponsored by the Broyhill Family Foundation and Campus Store.It is considered to be a “dream team of p...

  • Bell-Denk-Isserlis Trio, set for 'An Appalachian Summer Festival' / MountainTimes.com
    Posted At: July 15, 2024
    If chamber music were an Olympic sport, one could hardly imagine a more formidable dream team than the trio of violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis, and pianist Jeremy Denk. The three are each considered among the elite on their instruments as recitalists and symphonic soloists as well as other formats, and in many ways are at the forefront of redefining the roles and influence of classical musici...

  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Stephen Isserlis make The Daily Progress 'Top 5 Awesome Cellists' in 2019
    Posted At: December 25, 2019

    It's that time of year again: everyone is looking back on a year of listening, watching and reading and then weighing in on what lingered and satisfied. Take a look at the music and other delights that kept Daily Progress stalwarts entertained this year, and then think about your own top picks. Just stay out of drainage ditches and icy driveways. Sheku Kanneh-Mason. The first black cellist to win the...

  • Denk, Bell, Isserlis make beautiful music together at UCSBArts&Lectures / Santa Barbara Independent
    Posted At: May 13, 2019

    Pianist Jeremy Denk and violinist Joshua Bell, both American with lofty international cred, are hardly strangers to Santa Barbara stages. Denk has played here many times, was an acclaimed director of the Ojai Music Festival in 2014, and has since joined the Music Academy of the West faculty, making him a star summering in our midst. Bell has been an annual visitor for years now, in various incarnations. ...

  • Steven Isserlis set for SF Bay Area concerts pairing composers with their muses / The Mercury News
    Posted At: February 25, 2019

    Chamber Music San Francisco is bringing cellist Steven Isserlis to the Bay Area for recitals in Walnut Creek, San Francisco and Palo Alto. Valentine's Day has come and gone, but Steven Isserlis is still thinking about romance. The great British cellist arrives in the Bay Area this week with a program exploring the links between love and music. "Composers and their Muses" features Isserlis and pianist Con...

  • BBC Music Magazine's best recordings of Steven Isserlis
    Posted At: August 20, 2018

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px} Acclaimed worldwide for his profound musicianship and technical mastery, British cellist Steven Isserlis enjoys a unique and distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, author and broadcaster....

  • Shostakovich and a tear on a G string with Steven Isserlis & ACO / FINANCIAL TIMES
    Posted At: July 1, 2018

    The ghost of Stalin might have done it. The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) was on Saturday night at Arts Centre Melbourne's Hamer Hall, well into the fourth movement of Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1, where the composer's foreboding soundtrack of life in Soviet Russia rises to frenzied militiaristic pace as, in guest cellist Steven Isserlis's words, "it rushes headlong...

  • Steven Isserlis on coping with stage fright / Sydney Morning Herald
    Posted At: May 25, 2018

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} "I hope you don't mind the smell of garlic," says Steven Isserlis​ as he meets me at the door of his apartment in north London. "My son has been cooking." He ushers me into his practice room, a Dickensian space dominated by a grand piano and shelves stuffed with books and musical scores. One of his fav...

  • JB and the Academy, set for Broward PAC / Miami.com
    Posted At: March 25, 2018

    Joshua Bell with the world's best-known chamber orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields returns to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday March 25, 2018, to perform a new Edgar Meyer commission for violin and orchestra (one composed with Bell in mind), as well as Henryk Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 2. The program concludes with a performance of Beethoven'...

  • Bell - Isserlis dynamic duo are perfectly synched at Mostly Mozart / ZEALnyc
    Posted At: August 10, 2017

    Not many musicians can match violinist Joshua Bell for the sheer ferocity he brings to his music-making, but cellist Steven Isserlis is his perfect foil. Friends, colleagues, and sparring partners for three decades, they are symbiotic in their electrifying artistry when they play together, and the Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello, better known as the Brahms Double, is a tailor-made vehicle for their ...

  • Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival presents esteemed soloists and frequent collaborators Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis / BroadwayWorld
    Posted At: June 29, 2017

    Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival continues its 51st season with its third week of performances, including; Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and at the late-night series, A Little Night Music. On Tuesday, August 8 and Wednesday 9 at David Geffen Hall, esteemed soloists and frequent collaborators Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis team up for a blockbuster r...

  • Joshua Bell chats with WCLV: Cleveland, For the Love of Brahms
    Posted At: January 22, 2017

    Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis are joined by two acclaimed musical forces - pianist Jeremy Denk and theAcademy of St Martin in the Fields, of which Bell is Music Director - in a landmark joint recording, For the Love of Brahms (Sony Classical).  The new album is a unique project that features works of Brahms and Schumann that Bell calls "mus...

  • Joshua Bell interview with Kansas Public Radio
    Posted At: November 9, 2016

    Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis are joined by two acclaimed musical forces - pianist Jeremy Denk and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, of which Bell is Music Director - in a landmark joint recording, For the Love of Brahms (Sony Classical). A unique project that features works of Brahms and Schumann that Bell calls "music about love and frie...

  • Joshua Bell's Love for Brahms / Classical Purdue
    Posted At: October 13, 2016

    Joshua Bell is a fantastic violinist and conductor. He's an "Indiana Living Legend," has received the Indiana Governor's Arts Award, and grew up in Bloomington. His most recent release is called "For the Love of Brahms" and features Brahms' Concerto for Violin and Cello, his original version of the Piano Trio No. 1, and a Benjamin Britten arrangement of Robert Schumann's Adagio from the V...

  • Joshua Bell interviews with WFMT Radio
    Posted At: October 12, 2016

    While most people are familiar with the revised 1889 version of Brahms' Piano Trio in B Major, violinist Joshua Bell's new album, For the Love of Brahms, presents the original, 1854 version. The recording, which you can sample below, also features cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk. The trio was written when a 20 year old Brahms fell in love with his friend's, Robert Schumann's, wife: Clara ...

  • The Violin Channel - MEET THE PROS with Joshua Bell
    Posted At: October 1, 2016

    Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis are joined by two acclaimed musical forces - pianist Jeremy Denk and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, of which Bell is Music Director - in a landmark joint recording, For the Love of Brahms on Sony Classical. Just released on September 30, the new album is a unique project that features works of Brahms and Schuman...

  • Joshua Bell | Jeremy Denk / NPR - Tiny Desk
    Posted At: September 30, 2016

    "You gotta love Brahms," Joshua Bell says, a little short of breath. He's wiping sweat from his brow after the big rock 'n' roll conclusion to the composer's D minor Violin Sonata. Bell and the astute pianist Jeremy Denk play it with all the turbulence and tenderness Brahms demands, and it's an invigorating way to open this Tiny Desk concert. Bell and Denk have been chamber-music part...

  • Joshua Bell & Jeremy Denk discuss improvisation on 'Performance Today'
    Posted At: September 30, 2016

    The notes that a musician plays may have been written down by the composer, but an infinite number of decisions are involved in creating the music that reaches your ears. Listen in as Joshua Bell and pianist Jeremy Denk discuss the omnipresence of improvisation in their lives as performers, on Friday's - September 30 Performance Today. Bell's new Sony Classical album, For the Love of Bra...

  • Great soloists & ASMF come together For the Love of Brahms / The Strad
    Posted At: September 30, 2016

    Joshua Bell's third disc as music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields sees him team up with cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk. In the ‘Double' Concerto, Isserlis's playing is often more understated than Bell's and less imbued with Romantic rhetoric, but it's the cellist who nevertheless often draws in the ear with his mellow, natural approach. Both musicians manage to c...

  • Joshua Bell interview with New Classical Tracks
    Posted At: September 28, 2016

    New Classical Tracks is a Syndicated Feature airing Nationally on Classical 24 & Statewide on Minnesota Public Radio. Listen to Julie Amacher's Feature with Joshua Bell. READ THE TRANSCRIPT - Violinist Joshua Bell. You probably know him as a soloist. He's also a conductor, who's beginning his fifth season as the music director with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. "I...

  • For the Love of Brahms - New Classical Tracks with Joshua Bell
    Posted At: September 28, 2016

    New Classical Tracks is a Syndicated Feature airing Nationally on Classical 24 & Statewide on Minnesota Public Radio. Listen to Julie Amacher's Feature with Joshua Bell. READ THE TRANSCRIPT -  Violinist Joshua Bell. You probably know him as a soloist. He's also a conductor, who's beginning his fifth season as the music director with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. "I'...

  • Joshua Bell interviews with KHFM Radio: Albuquerque 'For the Love of Brahms'
    Posted At: September 23, 2016

    Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis join pianist Jeremy Denk and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, in a landmark recording - 'For the Love of Brahms' on Sony Classical.  Available September 30, 2016, the new album is a unique project that features works of Brahms and Schumann that Bell calls "music about love and friendship." A personal, deeply affectionate impulse f...

  • Joshua Bell speaks with Classical Radio 'For the Love of Brahms' / part 2
    Posted At: September 19, 2016

    Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis join pianist Jeremy Denk and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, in a landmark recording - 'For the Love of Brahms' on Sony Classical.  Available September 30, 2016, the new album is a unique project that features works of Brahms and Schumann that Bell calls "music about love and friendship." A personal, deeply affectionate impulse f...

  • Joshua Bell speaks with Classical Radio 'For the Love of Brahms'
    Posted At: September 9, 2016

    Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis join pianist Jeremy Denk and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, in a landmark recording - 'For the Love of Brahms' on Sony Classical.  Available September 30, 2016, the new album is a unique project that features works of Brahms and Schumann that Bell calls "music about love and friendship." A personal, deeply affectionate impulse freque...
Go to artist details