Brahms: Trio in A minor for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Op. 114
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Anthony McGill
Inon Barnatan
Clarinetist Anthony McGill, Principal Clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, is one of classical music’s most celebrated performers and advocates. Hailed by the New York Times for his “brilliance, penetrating sound and rich character,” McGill was named Musical America’s 2024 Instrumentalist of the Year and received the 2020 Avery Fisher Prize. As a soloist, McGill performs with major orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, and Chicago Symphony. He is a sought-after chamber musician and recording artist, collaborating with the Pacifica Quartet and pianist Gloria Chien on acclaimed albums like American Stories and Here With You. An advocate for equity in classical music, McGill founded the #TakeTwoKnees movement and collaborates with the Equal Justice Initiative. He directs Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program and teaches at Curtis. A Curtis graduate himself, McGill serves on several arts organization boards and is a Backun Artist.
Pianist Inon Barnatan performs regularly with leading orchestras and conductors worldwide. He was the inaugural Artist-in-Association of the New York Philharmonic and has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago and Boston symphonies, and most major US ensembles, as well as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Zurich Tonhalle, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, and the London, Hong Kong, and Royal Stockholm Philharmonics. In the 2025–26 season he performs with the Baltimore, Dallas, and Minnesota symphonies, gives solo recitals at Tippet Rise Art Center and Wigmore Hall, and takes part in the Complete Etudes of Philip Glass project at the Krannert Center and the University Musical Society. Barnatan is Music Director of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest in California, a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, and an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program.
SOMETHING TO KNOW:
Brahms came back from semi-retirement to write this trio for the clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld. Brahms admired Mühlfeld so much that he would go on to write a quintet and two sonatas for him.
SOMETHING TO LISTEN FOR:
Brahms masterfully blends the clarinet and cello, particularly in the slow second movement, which sounds like a love duet.
Recorded live in Alice Tully Hall on January 24, 2017.
Video produced by Ibis Productions.