JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios Volume 4 Bartolozzi Trio: Matthew Truscott (violin), Richard Lester (cello) & Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2014 ] Haydn's thirty Piano Trios were written between 1784 and 1797, reflecting both changes in keyboard instruments, as the piano replaced the harpsichord, and developments in sonata form. The Trios included here, dating from the earlier years of this... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: 9 Piano Trios Beaux Arts Trio [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] "PentaTone's DSD remastering of the four-channel original for SACD shows what fine recordings these always were; the sound is quite simply beautiful." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
ANTONIN DVORAK / FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Dvorak/Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Beaux Arts Trio, with Daniel Hope (violin), Menahem Pressler (piano), Antonio Meneses (violoncello) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 3/Jan/2005 ] |
BRAHMS
Piano Trios Beaux Arts Trio [ Decca Originals / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] "The playing is always highly vital and sensitive. There is a splendid, finely projected sense of line and the delicate, sensitive playing of Menahem Pressler is always a delight." The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Trios (plus Adagio in E flat major, D897 Notturno) Beaux Arts Trio [ Philips Originals / 2 CD - released 15/Apr/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) - "The new performance has many fine qualities ... The Beaux Arts Trio's new approach to Schubert suites the darker, more serious character of the E Flat Trio better ... the new... |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: String Quartet / Piano Trio / Introduction et Allegro Beaux Arts Trio / Carmirelli Quartet / Chamber Music Society of Amsterdam / Eduard van Beinum [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] 'this new Beaux Arts performance, even more than their previous one, is most sensitive to the music's ebb and flow, acutely aware of its inventive new combinations of sounds ... the new Beaux Arts recording now becomes the prime recommendation'... |
SCHUBERT / MOZART
Piano Quintet in A, D667 The Trout / Clarinet Quintet in A KV581 Beaux Arts Trio / Grumiax Quartet [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 18/Aug/2006 ] Not only are both the quintets by Mozart and Schubert recorded on this CD considered radiant pearls in the oeuvre of two outstanding composers, they also rank first place in a fictive listing of instrumental chamber music. |
Beaux Arts Trio, Quartetto Italiano, Academy Chamber Ensemble
Schubert-Great Chamber Works (Includes Octet in F major, D803) [ Philips Duo / 2 CD - released 5/Apr/2004 ] A generously-filled pair of discs offers three of Schubert's most famous and best-loved chamber masterpieces for different instrumental forces: the Octet for strings and wind, the "Trout" Quintet for piano and strings, and "Death and the Maiden" for... |
BRAHMS
Piano Quartets Op.25, 26 & 60 Beaux Arts Trio (with Walter Trampler - viola) [ Pentatone SACD / 2 SACD - released 11/Mar/2006 ] The first quartets written by Brahms were not strings quartets, as one might expect, but these piano quartets, with which Brahms refers to the works written by Mozart in this genre and on which he worked simultaneously |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Quartets Op.25, 26 & 60 / piano Trio in A Beaux Arts Trio (with Walter Trampler - viola) [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] Beaux Arts Trio |
Beaux Arts Trio/Pieterson Qt
Schubert/Mozart: Trout Quintet [ Pentatone / SACD - released 11/Aug/2003 ] |
Beaux Arts Trio/Trampler
Brahms: Piano Quartets 1-3 [ Pentatone / 2 Hybrid SACD ] |
LOUIS SPOHR
Complete Piano Trios Beethoven Trio Ravensburg [ CPO / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/May/2009 ] Beethoven Trio Ravensburg |
Beethoven Trio Ravensburg
Marschner: Piano Trios 2 & 5 [ Cpo / CD - released 31/Dec/2001 ] |
JOSEPH CHRISTIAN WILLIBALD MICHL
Michl: Quartets Nos. 1-6 for Bassoon, 2 Violins and Cello Ben Hoadley (bassoon) / The Hall String Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Upon hearing a chamber piece by Joseph Michl in Munich in 1772 the English composer and music historian Charles Burney wrote, 'I hardly ever heard a composition that discovered more genius and invention.' |
Ben Webster with The Mike Renzi Trio
Layin' Back With Ben [ Lone Hill Jazz / CD - released 7/Sep/2004 ] 2 Albums On 1 CD! This extraordinary release includes the complete December 7, 1963 Pawtucket, Rhode Island sessions recorded at the now defunct Kings & Queens. |
Benedikt Jahnel Trio
Equilibrium [ ECM / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "Equilibrium" is the ECM debut of a German/American/Spanish trio, which through frequent touring has grown into a remarkably tight and stylistically unique unit in recent years. Fuelled by the tension created through the contrasting styles of pianist... |
Benedikt Jahnel Trio
The Invariant [ ECM / CD - released 3/Mar/2017 ] The trio with Spanish bassist Antonio Miguel and Canadian drummer Owen Howard has been an invariant in the life of Berlin based pianist Benedikt Jahnel. Hence the album title: The Invariant is issued as the group goes on tour to celebrate its tenth... |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Clarinet Sonatas / Piano Trio / Trio in One Movement Benjamin Frith (Piano) / Alice Neary (Cello) / Robert Plane (Clarinet) / Gould Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Jun/2006 ] "The recording quality is typical Potton Hall, warm, detailed and well balanced and the liner notes by Lewis Foreman (who else?) very informative, even if the music is discussed in chronological order of composition, the opposite of the playing order... |
MENDELSSOHN
The Piano Trios Benvenue Fortepiano Trio: Monica Huggett (violin), Tanya Tomkins (cello) & Eric Zivian (fortepiano) [ Avie / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] The Benvenue Fortepiano Trio, led my Monica Huggett, offer a rare periodinstrument recording of Mendelssohn's popular Piano Trios. The 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn's birth in 2009 has raised the popularity of his music to new heights. This... |