... early recordings As a composition that has enjoyed a fairly constant presence in the concert hall over the past 150 years, Brahms’s Trio for Piano, Violin, and Waldhorn (1865) has sounded at several junctures of symbolic significance for the dissemination of the classical canon of chamber music...

... With respect to the music of Brahms, the richest source of hairpin notation data is to be found in early recordings by musicians close to him. Early-twentieth-century performers treated the score far more flexibly than modern per- formers, and their performance decisions were influenced by many factors beyond...