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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... |
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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... |
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Bill Evans Trio
Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra [ IMS Verve / CD ] |
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Bobo Stenson Trio
Contra la indecision [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jan/2018 ] The great Swedish trio of Bobo Stenson takes a stand against indecision in a decisively beautiful new album. As ever, the trio draws upon a wide range of source materials. A yearning title song by Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez, Bartók's... |
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Bobo Stenson Trio
Serenity [ ECM / 2 CD - released 26/Jun/2000 ] The topography of Serenity is as varied as that of life, speaking to and from the heart of what this outfit is capable of. This record is first and foremost about clarity, second about a distant storm whose image is its soundtrack. In balancing these... |
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Bobo Stenson Trio
Sphere [ ECM / CD - released 24/Feb/2023 ] The Bobo Stenson Trio's ability of covering far-reaching idioms and wide-ranging repertoire within the scope of their personal diction has become both hallmark and custom, inspiring the New York Times to say the pianist "makes sublime piano-trio... |
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Bobo Stenson Trio
Sphere (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 24/Feb/2023 ] |
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Bobo Stenson Trio
War Orphans [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Characteristically broad in its stylistic range, this 1997 recording begins with a tune by Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez and ends with Duke Ellington's "Melancholia". In between are original contributions by Anders Jormin and Bobo Stenson... |
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JAN CRAS / EUGENE YSAYE / JEAN FRANCAIX
Conversations A Trois (Cras, Ysaye & Francaix) Boccherini Trio [ BIS SACD / CD - released 19/Jun/2026 ] Following a first release devoted to string trios by Hungarian composers (BIS-2107), the Trio Boccherini now presents a programme dedicated to works composed in France and Belgium during the first half of the 20th century. In a culture that so... |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Piano Trios Nos. 1-4 (Complete) Borodin Trio - Rostislav Dubinsky (violin), Yuli Turovsky (cello), Luba Edlina (piano) [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 9/May/2005 ] "…searching accounts, often quite free in tempo and rhythm, and played with magnificently expressive tone. The performance of the Op 90 Dumky is remarkable - high imaginative in the introduction of changes in tone colour, tempo and dynamics." Gramoph |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Trios 1 & 2 Borodin Trio [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jan/2015 ] "..most will warm to the full-blooded Romanticism of their way with Mendelssohn. The scherzos in particular have a magical lightness; recording is warmly supportive." (BBC Music) |
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ARENSKY
Piano Trios Borodin Trio [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 14/Apr/2004 ] ''...one senses the music coursing through the Russian's veins in a way that eludes their distinguished colleagues... when the music turns introspectively moody the Borodin players are inimitable. Brian Couzens's Chandos Classics recording is... |
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SCHUBERT
Piano Trios Borodin Trio [ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] ''These are glowingly affectionate readings, captured in a warm, generous acoustic which casts a gentle halo over the proceedings, suiting the music in hand to a tee!'' International Record Review |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Trio 'Elegiac' No.1 & No. 2 Borodin Trio [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/May/2004 ] "One should add that the Borodin's Trio's playing matches as well, being passionately responsive to the music's long-drawn-out melancholy and to its robustness." (Gramophone) |
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ALNAR / TÜZÜN / BARAN / BALCI
Turkish Piano Trios Bosphorus Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] This album of piano trios by four Turkish composers, the first in a series, covers three generations of composers whose music combines traditional rhythms and modalities with established Western classical sonorities. |
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NIKOLAY ROSLAVETS / DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH
History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 10 The Brahms Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Nikolay Roslavets was one of the great musical innovators of the 1920s, described by Stravinsky as 'the most interesting Russian composer of the 20th century,' but vilified by the Soviet regime on account of his constant experimentation. His Piano... |
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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY / PAUL PABST
History of the Russian Piano Trio Vol. 2 The Brahms Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2021 ] "This is a very satisfying recording of Tchaikovsky's Trio, and while the Pabst is a minor work, it's good to have it on disc. This looks like a promising series. Recommended." Fanfare |
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ANTON ARENSKY / SERGEY TANEYEV
History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 4 The Brahms Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 14/May/2021 ] "These three Russian virtuosos present the two trios with equal conviction, summoning up different palettes of colours for some truly high-level music-making." Editor's Choice - Gramophone September 2021 |
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VLADISLAV ALIOZ / ALEXANDER WINKLER
History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 7 The Brahms Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Jul/2025 ] The two composers featured on this album worked in Russia during a period when it had become part of international musical culture, with many European musicians choosing to make a living there. Famous Czech cellist, Vladislav Aloiz, whose... |
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / CUI / BORODIN
Russian Piano Trio Volume 3 The Brahms Trio [ 8574114 / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's influence as composer and teacher was profound in Russia and beyond, yet his chamber music has been overshadowed by his operas and orchestral works. The unfinished Piano Trio in C minor was completed by his son-in-law... |