Schubert: Piano Trios D 929 and D 897

"Those unfamiliar with the extraordinary Naxos label should hear what they've been missing---this Schubert disc is, to my knowledge, the best place to start. For about seven bucks, you can have this absolutely brilliant performance, recorded in equally superb sound. The Stuttgart Piano Trio is technically flawless, occasionally breathtaking. They play with intelligence, joy, and respectful understatement. The tone colors are captured in extraordinary fidelity, and the ambience is entirely realistic, without bloating in the lower ranges."

- Stereophile.com

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"The striding second movement theme is splendidly realised and relished with Monika Leonhard, a pupil of Alfred Brendel, enjoying every bar on its return during the finale. The cellist Klaus Kanngiesser and the violinist Rainer Kussmaul are no less compelling."

- Classic CD - June 1990

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"The very best D. 897 I have heard."

- Fanfare

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"...a lively performance."

- BBC Radio Three

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"The Stuttgart Piano Trio presents the music with straightforward and telling competence."

- The Adelaide Advertiser (Australia)