MAURICE RAVEL / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Ravel & Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios Sitkovetsky Trio [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] "It's ravishingly done by the Sitkovetsky Trio, who more than inhabit the scope of Ravel's expressive language and ambition in his attempt to expand the form's musical language." WINNER- Chamber BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022 |
SMETANA / DVORAK
Piano Trios Smetana Trio [ Supraphon / CD - released 18/Nov/2014 ] "Shostakovich's wartime Second Trio, such a powerful work, gets a splendid performance...the Smetana players know just what to do for maximum effect." (Gramophone) |
Sonny Clark Trio
Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) (LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The supremely swinging pianist Sonny Clark hit the Blue Note scene in 1957 with a burst of creativity recording three albums in three months including the sublime Sonny Clark Trio, a 6-song set of bebop themes and standards featuring bassist Paul... |
Ben Webster Quartet, Jimmy Giuffre, Nat King Cole Trio, Lena Horne, Nancy Wilson, Frank Sinatra, Gerry Mulligan Orchestra, etc
Harold Arlen Songbook - Over The Rainbow [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] New York-born Harold Arlen (1905-1986) wrote some of the biggest hits from the 1930s and 1940s, including the entire score to the classic movie "The Wizard of Oz" and was without doubt one of the greatest of all the American popular composers and... |
BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana Collection Stamitz Quartet, Joachim Trio, Roberto Plano (piano), Antonin Kubalek (piano) Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Theodore Kuchar [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD - released 1/May/2023 ] Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer born in Bohemia and later became a national symbol of Czech culture. Smetana's musical style was influenced by Czech folk music, classical traditions and romanticism. He is best known for his cycle of six... |
Tania Giannouli Trio
In Fading Light [ Rattle Records / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] Oud and trumpet are two of my favourite instruments. A piano trio with these instruments is unusual, but I wanted to explore the beautiful textures, tonalities and emotional resonances that this combination of instruments offers. And of course,... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 [Nos 3 & 4 "Dumky"] Tempest Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] ."The all-star Tempest Trio make their recording debut with two Romantic masterworks that fully capture the music's emotional changeability and power." BBC Music |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Piano Trios, Vol. 2 The Tempest Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2017 ] "I can only say that they are one of the very best trios I have heard. Their technical skill and musicianship shine through." MusicWeb Nov |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY/ MAURICE RAVEL / GABRIEL FAURE
Debussy, Ravel, Faure: Piano trios The Florestan Trio [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] '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) |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Being There [ ECM Records / CD - released 24/Apr/2007 ] Offering gorgeous melodies & poetic lyricism, 'Being There' is another fine recording from Tord Gustavsen, Harald Johnsen and Jarle Vespestad. This third album from the TG Trio follows on from the superb 'Changing Places' and 'The Ground'. |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Changing Places [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Dec/2003 ] The songs Gustavsen writes sound like standards-in-the-making - lyrical, immediately memorable songs, songs of an appealing freshness, yet sophisticated in their involvement with the melodic line. |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
The Ground [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Nov/2004 ] The eagerly awaited follow-up to "Changing Places", the most successful ECM debut of the last decade! The improvising of Gustavsen's Trio is always restrained, subtle, tasteful. |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Opening [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] On the album Opening, Tord Gustavsen reveals a fresh angle to his particularly unique trio investigations into Scandinavian folk hymns, gospel, chorale and jazz, as he introduces a different voice on bass. With a new fellow-traveller on board and... |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
The Other Side [ ECM / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] "This is the chill-out as a state of grace, and it can go as deep as you like. Sublime," wrote the Independent on Sunday of the Gustavsen's trio's Being There, released in 2007. Over the last decade Tord has explored other ensemble forms and formats,... |
GIULIANI
Boccherini: Six Trios Op. 1 & Six Sinfonias Op.35 Trio Arcophon & I Filarmonici di Bologna, Angelo Ephrikian [ Newton Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] |
Trio Azteca & De Norte A Sur
The Best of Mexico [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
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... |
GUDMUNDSEN / HOLMGREEN / HEGAARD / KOCH / NIELSEN / NORHOLM
Five Danish Piano Trios Trio Ismena [ Dacapo / CD - released 20/Apr/2016 ] "[The Gudmundsen-Holmgreen] piece is worth the price of the disc alone, and suggests that Nielsen's legacy of individuality has eclipsed Gade's ideas of conformity when it comes to Denmark's most worthy 21st-century music" Gramophone Magazine, Januar |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios Trio Élégiaque [ Brilliant Classics Quintessence / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Sep/2020 ] The young French Trio Elegiaque has already received great critical acclaim for their recording of Messiaen and Dusapin (Diapason d'Or!). They played the Beethoven trio cycle several times in concert series. |
TRADITIONAL
Rimur Trio Mediaeval & Arve Henriksen (trumpet) [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] "if the idea of a semi-distant Nordic cousin to Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble's 'Officium' series appeals, this is worth procuring" (Gramophone) |