Florestan Trio auf CD

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The three trios on this disc are the work of, respectively, a teenager, a nearly-forty-year-old and a seventy-seven-year-old. So it's understandable not only that the difference in musical language is even greater than the composers' names might suggest, but that each may be heard as having a different significance within its composer's oeuvre.

To modern ears the Debussy trio appears to be nothing like the mature Debussy we know, but more like Delibes. Although maybe no more than salon music, it gives immediate pleasure If this Trio shows us a young composer in search of his technique, Ravel's trio shows us a middle-aged one exulting in his. A wonderfully written piano trio which in the hands of The Florestan Trio shows a work of true magic. Likewise the Fauré—a trio written at the end of his life and showing the profound and austere characteristics of his last works.

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'From impressive to breathtaking' (What Hi-Fi?)

'Excellent' (Hi-Fi News and Record Review)

'It's a lovely recital; I've never been so convinced that the Debussy's worth hearing, and the Ravel is full of delicate delights.' (BBC Music Magazine)

'A delightful grouping of French trios from the Gramophone Award-winning Florestan's, who breathe fresh life into these works ... top of my list.' (Gramophone)

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P.​ Donahue in KLASSIK heute 4/00: "Diese CD mit dem englischen Florestan Trio muß zu den herausragenden Kammermusikeinspielungen der letzten Jahre gerechnet werden.​ Mit makellosem Stilgefühl und einer hochkulti- vierten Eleganz lassen diese drei exzellenten Musiker das jugendliche g-Moll-Klaviertrio Debussys von 1879, Ravels vielgespieltes Trio von 1914 und Faures reifes Trio op.​ 120 wie neugeboren erscheinen.​"