BRAHMS Piano Trio No 1 in B Major, Op 8 Preucil, Kosower, Neriki

BRAHMS: Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8
I. Allegro con brio
William Preucil, violin
Mark Kosower, cello
Shigeo Neriki, piano
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William Preucil was appointed concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra in 1994. Prior to joining the Orchestra, he performed for seven seasons as the first violinist of the Cleveland Quartet, performing over 100 concerts annually throughout the world and recording the Beethoven quartet cycle and other works for Telarc.
Mr Preucil is former concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony, and has held similar posts in Utah and Nashville. During his tenure in Atlanta he appeared with the orchestra as soloist in seventy performances of fifteen different concerti. The Violin Concerto by Stephen Paulus was dedicated to him, and he recorded it with the Atlanta Symphony for New World Records. Other solo appearances have been with the orchestras of Minnesota, Detroit, Rochester, Utah, and Hong Kong.
Mr Preucil performs regularly at the most prestigious chamber music festivals, including Seattle, Sitka, Sarasota, Norfolk, and in Switzerland, France, and Germany. He is a member of the Lanier Trio, whose recording of the complete Dvorák piano trios was honored as one of TIME magazines’s top ten CDs in 1993.
Actively involved as an educator, Mr Preucil taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has held positions as Professor of Music at Eastman and Distinguished Lecturer in Music at the University of Georgia. He is a member of the Artistic Advisory Board for the Interlochen Center for the Arts.
Mr Preucil began violin study at the age of five, taught by his mother, Doris Preucil. At sixteen, he graduated with honors from the Interlochen Arts Acodemy and entered Indiana University to study with Josef Gingold. He studied additionally with Zino Francescatti and Gyorgy Sebok.
Mark Kosower joined The Cleveland Orchestra as principal cello in 2010. Described as “a virtuoso of staggering prowess” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he is a consummate artist equally at home internationally as a recital and concerto soloist. As an orchestral principal, he was formerly solo cellist of the Bamberg Symphony in Germany (2006-10).
His recent and current schedule features Mr. Kosower appearing as soloist with the symphony orchestras of Buffalo, Canton, Columbus, Indianapolis, Naples, Phoenix, Toledo, Columbus Pro Musica, and the Oregon Mozart Players. He also launched Bach for Humanity in 2018, a three-year commitment to the greater Cleveland area bringing the cello suites and his arrangements of the violin sonatas and partitas to both conventional and nonconventional venues, including educational institutions, community centers, senior residences, and the concert hall. Mr. Kosower recently recorded the Brahms Cello Sonatas with pianist Jee-Won Oh in the Beethovensaal in Hannover, Germany, and the duo saw the release of works by Strauss, Reger, and Klemmstein with the Ambitus label.
Mr. Kosower is a frequent guest at international chamber music festivals, including Santa Fe, Eastern Music, North Shore Chamber Music, Japan’s Pacific Music Festival, and Colorado’s Strings Music Festival. In past seasons, he has appeared internationally as soloist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, China National Symphony in Beijing, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, and the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, in addition to solo performances at the Châtelet in Paris, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, and the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro. Other appearances as concerto soloist have included the orchestras of Detroit, Florida, Houston, Milwaukee, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Ravinia, Saint Paul, Seattle, and Virginia.
Born in Wisconsin, Mark Kosower began studying cello at the age of one-and-a-half with his father who studied with Ernst Silberstein, principal cello of The Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell. He later studied with Janos Starker at Indiana University and with Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School. Mr. Kosower’s many accolades include an Avery Fisher Career Grant, a Sony Grant, and as grand prize winner of the Irving M. Klein International String Competition.

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When was this recorded?

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Likely when Preucil was still with the Cleveland SO

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At Janos Starker’s memorial at IU Bloomington.