Piano Trio in A minor (Sibelius)

The Piano Trio in A minor, Hafträsk, JS 207, is a four-movement chamber piece for violin, cello, and piano written in the summer of 1886 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The trio derives its nickname from the small village of Hafträsk on Norrskata, an island located in the Turku archipelago, at which the Sibelius family vacationed in 1886. Immediately upon its completion, Sibelius substantially revised the first movement; this version, however, is fragmentary, although the cello part is complete.

Structure
The A minor trio is in four movements, as follows: 1. Allegro maestoso

2. Andantino

3. Scherzo. Vivace

4. Rondo. []

The Hafträsk Trio remains in manuscript.

Discography
The Finnish musicians Jaakko Kuusisto (violin), Marko Yltinen (cello), and Folke Gräsbeck (piano) made the world premiere studio recording of the Hafträsk Trio in 2002 for BIS. The table below lists this and other commercially available recordings:

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