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Leornard Elschenbroich and regular recital partner Alexei Grynyuk are joined by Wigmore Hall regular Nicola Benedetti to perform two cornerstones of the piano trio repertoire. Beethoven’s Op. 70 piano trios were written in 1808 around the time of the 5th and 6th symphonies and soon after the three expansive 'Razumovsky' string quartets. Brahms began the second of his three Piano Trios in the summer of 1880 and finished it in the summer of 1882, years of marked change in his life. He seems to have been especially pleased with the C major trio and uncharacteristically eager to say so, writing to his publisher, 'You have not yet had such a beautiful trio from me and very likely have not published its equal in the last ten years.'