ONSLOW
Complete Piano Trios Vols. 3 & 4 Trio Cascades [ CPO Records / 2 CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] The last two volumes of George Onslow's complete trios demonstrate once again that the rediscovery of this virtuosic, dramatically expressive, emotionally intimate, and finely crafted music is long overdue. |
GEORGE ONSLOW
Complete Piano Trios Volume 1 Trio Cascades [ MDG / CD - released 1/Feb/2009 ] Both trios demonstrate that the rediscovery of Onslow's music is long overdue. |
GEORGE ONSLOW
Complete Piano Trios Volume 2 Trio Cascades [ MDG / CD - released 1/Feb/2009 ] Volume two of CPO's exploration of George Onslow's Piano Trios features two trios from different stages of the composer's life. |
Trio Catch
Apergis, Furrer, Donatoni, Feldman, Andre, Pagh-Paan, Illés, Bull - In Between [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] Trio Catch are at home in musical fringe areas, somewhere between tones, sounds and noises. In his liner notes Rainer Peters describes their music as "expedition to the edges;" and this is exactly where the three ladies intend to take us, to reveal... |
Trio Ceres
Piano Trios [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 16/Aug/2010 ] |
CHARMINADE / DEBUSSY / LENORMAND
Piano Trios Trio Chausson [ Mirare / CD - released 7/May/2012 ] "Rare early Debussy, the great but under-rated Chaminade, the unjustly forgotten Lenormand: three French trios take us by surprise with the quality of their inventiveness and beauty. Superbly played." (BBC Music) |
HAYDN / HUMMEL
Piano Trios Trio Chausson [ Mirare / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] "Never trivial, de Larochelambert weights both individual notes and chords with care, his colleagues matching his rhythmic patterns...An outstanding disc." (Editor's Choice Gramophone March 2015) |
CHOPIN
Trio for piano, violin & cello / Introduction and Polonaise brillante (with Liszt - Tristia) Trio Chausson [ Mirare / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Frederic Chopin's Polonaise Brillante, Op. 3, is one of the few pieces this composer ever wrote for an instrument besides piano. Written when he was only 19 years old, in the autumn of 1829, Chopin had fallen head over heels for a young woman in... |
SCHOENBERG
Verklaerte Nacht (with Babadjanian-Piano Trio) Trio Con Brio [ Scandinavian Classics / CD - released 4/Oct/2008 ] "They command an amazing range of timbres. Melodies sing with an aching sweetness, or seduce with wild eroticism" (American Record Guide) |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos. 3 & 4 / Allegretto in B-Flat Major (arr. for oboe, bassoon and piano) Trio Cremeloque [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Oct/2019 ] The year is 1791. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies. Late in the following year Ludwig van Beethoven departs from Bonn to Vienna. Upon his arrival the news comes that his father is no longer among the living. For a 22-year-old man, those two deaths must... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Trios / Sonata in A minor 'Arpeggione' / etc Trio Dali [ Fuga Libera / 2 CD - released 28/Sep/2011 ] "The recording is beautifully balanced, with the piano never unduly forward in the texture and a particular delight is the way the players melds Schubert's countermelodies to sensitively." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine October 2011 |
Trio D'anches Hamburg/Tardy
Tomasi: Concertos For Woodwind [ Farao Classics / CD - released 3/Jan/2011 ] |
HAYDN
Horn Trios Trio di Bassetto [ K617 / CD - released 23/Aug/2010 ] These trios, recorded here for the first time on basset-horn, come from the prodigious series that Haydn wrote for Prince Nicolaus Esterházy, an enthusiastic player of the string baryton. |
NAPOLEON-HENRI REBER
reber: Trios Nos 3, 5 & 7 Trio Elegiaque [ Timpani / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] Recordings featuring Reber are few and far between: one recent recording of the four symphonies, and a long time ago three trios for piano, violin and cello. These trios have everything going for them. They are works of constant inspiration,... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios Trio Fontenay, Jaap Schroder (violin), Wouter Moller (cello), Bob van Asperen (harpsichord), Andrew Manze (violin) [ Teldec Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 19/May/2008 ] "If the Fontenay seem more attuned to Haydn's inwardness and lyricism than to his animal spirits, there's much to savour in these affectionate, thoughtfully characterized readings, truthfully captured by Teldec's engineers." (Gramophone on the Trio... |
DVORAK
Piano Trios Trio Fontenay [ Warner Apex / 2 CD - released 23/Apr/2007 ] "These four beautiful works, which range from the lyrical and cheerful to the intense and even the bleak, especially in the grim and severe Piano Trio No. 3, has never been better performed and recorded than on these two wonderful discs." BBC Music... |
NIKOLAI ROSLAVETS
Roslavets: Piano Trios 2-4 Trio Fontenay [ Warner Apex / CD - released 26/Jan/2009 ] "From the brooding Scriabinesque chromaticism of the Second to the more percussive Prokofiev-inspired Fourth, Roslavets's Trios provide a fascinating chronicle of the turbulent musical climate during the early years of the Soviet Union." (BBC Music) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / PAUL JUON / NIKOS SKALKOTTAS
Berlin Stories Trio Gaspard [ Chando / CD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] Berlin Stories is the first in a new series of recordings by Trio Gaspard, focussed on different cultural capitals and composers associated with them. The album features three composers who lived and worked in Berlin for a period of their lives |
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN / LEONID GOROKHOV
Haydn: Piano Trios II / Gorokhov: For Gaspard Trio Gaspard [ Chandos / CD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] Described by Gramophone as 'an album of joyous, imaginative music-making that whets the appetite for future instalments', the first volume of Trio Gaspard's Haydn cycle was enthusiastically received by buyers and critics alike. As in the case of that... |
RAVEL / BONIS / FAURE
Piano Trios Trio George Sand [ Zig Zag Territoires / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] |