LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Music for Piano Trio-1 The Florestan Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Feb/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) - "No piano trio today conveys such a feeling of spontaneous, excited discovery as the Florestan." ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Music for Piano Trio vol. 2 The Florestan Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Sep/2003 ] An important issue in the award-winning survey of piano trio repertoire by our old friends, the Florestan Trio. |
BEDRICH SMETANA / PETR EBEN / BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Smetana / Eben / Martinu: Czech Piano Trios The Florestan Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "[The Eben] is the sort of score that the Florestans seem to relish, music full of subtle shades, many of them tucked carefully within subsidiary voices...[The Smetana] is an immensely imposing piece, written in the wake of great personal loss, and... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY/ MAURICE RAVEL / GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Debussy/Ravel/Faure: Piano trios The Florestan Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 12/Dec/2003 ] 'The Florestans, exhibiting their trademark finesse, taste and sensitivity, fully demonstrate why they are one of the most highly prized of new ensembles' (The Scotsman) |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios, Vol. 2 The Florestan Trio [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] 'The Florestans play with a spring in their fingers Haydn's last four piano trios dating from the mid-1790s' (Classic FM Magazine) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2 / Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok Florestan Trio, with Susan Gritton (soprano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/May/2011 ] The Florestan judges its performances extremely well...The players maintain a raw, nervy quality - this is playing close to the edge...Highly recommended." (International Record Review) |
Fred Hersch Trio
Live In Europe [ Palmetto / CD - released 20/Feb/2018 ] Recorded live on November 24, 2017 In Brussels, Belgium. |
Gary Peacock Trio
Tangents [ ECM / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] Some of Gary Peacock's finest music - including his new album, Tangents - has been made in the context of piano trios. Early in his career, he helped to establish a fresh role for the bass as an independent melodic voice, an evolution carried forward... |
Gary Peacock Trio
Now This [ ECM / CD - released 29/May/2015 ] In the realm of the piano trio the bar is set high, and creative bassist Gary Peacock has helped raise it in the groups of Bill Evans, Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett. Now This is an album with the bassist's current trio, recorded last summer in Oslo.... |
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Chamber Music: Piano Trio No 1 / Irish Fantasies / etc Gould Piano Trio Lucy Gould (violin) / Alice Neary (cello) / Benjamin Frith (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "I'm delighted to be able to report that the Gould Piano Trio are magnificently stylish and sympathetic champions...Benefiting from top-notch production values throughout, this generously filled disc should be snapped up without delay." Gramophone. |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schumann: Piano Trios Opp 63 & 80 Grieg Trio [ Virgin Classics Ultraviolet / CD - released 15/Oct/1996 ] "The Grieg Trio performs the music with understanding and sensitivity...Technically demanding passages, such as the eerie and unexpected tremolandi towards the end of the first Trio's opening movement, hold no dangers for this ensemble." C-music.com |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Serenades Op. 8 & Op. 25 Grumiaux Trio, with Maxence Larrieu (flute) [ Philips Duo / CD - released 20/Mar/1990 ] Recorded: The Netherlands, 1/1968 (Op. 8); 5/1968 (Op. 25) |
Hoagy Carmichael Trio, Nat King Cole, Art Tatum, Dinah Shore, Kay Starr, Zoot Sims, etc
Hoagy Carmichael Songbook - Star Dust [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including 50 that achieved hit record status. He is best known for composing four of the most-recorded American songs of all time: "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind", and "The Nearness of You" |
Holly Cole Trio
Don't Smoke in Bed [ Capitol Records / CD - released 3/Feb/1997 ] European imported disc. |
HANDEL / MARAIS / SCARLATTI / MARCELLO / ALBINONI / PACHELBEL
Jacques Loussier Trio Plays Baroque Favorites Jacques Loussier Trio [ Telarc Records / CD - released 9/Nov/2001 ] Loussier's unique jazz improvisations on Baroque classics |
BACH / SATIE / VIVALDI / CHOPIN
Classic Jacques Loussier Jacques Loussier Trio [ Concord / Telarc / 5 CD Box Set - released 16/Mar/2019 ] Ever since his landmark recordings (over six million albums were sold) made with the Play Bach Trio in the '60s, the name of classically-trained pianist/composer Jacques Loussier has been linked with that of the great master of Western... |
J.S. BACH
Plays Bach: The 50th anniversary recording Jacques Loussier Trio [ Telarc Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Jacques Loussier Trio Celebrates a Half-Centruy of Classical-Jazz Innovation. |
CAMILLE SAINT SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Trios 1 & 2 Joachim Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] "No quarrels with the playing of the Joachim Trio. The pianist in particular has elegance and charm. This is delightful and inventive music, well recorded-and well worth the money." Penguin Guide |
Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell, Carmen Castaldi - Trio Tapestry
Our Daily Bread [ ECM / CD - released 5/May/2023 ] The third album from Joe Lovano's Trio Tapestry finds the group continuing to extend its spacious and lyrical approach, with deep listening and intense focus. "Our Daily Bread is fueled by the rhythm spirit of expression that projects the mysterious... |
Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry
Garden Of Expression (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 26/Mar/2021 ] The debut album of Joe Lovano's Trio Tapestry was one of 2019's most talked-about releases. The trio's musical concept - the Boston Globe spoke of "utterances of hushed assurance, lyricism and suspense" - is taken to the next level on its second... |