Heard far less often than his string quartets because of their scoring, Haydn's late piano trios are marvels of lyrical subtlety from the period of his greatest maturity in the 1790s. The Kungsbacka ...

Joseph Haydn spent three decades of his life perfecting his art at the Esterhazy Palace, south of Vienna. Music is still performed at the Palace and The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt is one of the groups that ...

With a little help from the Kungsbacka, the Aquinas are gradually colonising the complete Haydn keyboard trios for Naxos – the first intégrale since the Beaux Arts’ now classic 1970s Philips survey.

Put a piano together with a single violin and a single cello and you have a potential problem, since the huge sound of the modern keyboard can easily drown out two string instruments. So the form of ...

CHAMBER music is supposed to be “caviar for the connoisseur,” but I’ve always found it more pleasurable and easier to follow than symphonic or concerto forms. For one thing, you only have a few lines ...

Keyboard Trio No. 18 (Sonata) Joseph Haydn, Composer Trio Wanderer Keyboard Trio No. 21 (Sonata) Joseph Haydn, Composer Trio Wanderer Keyboard Trio No. 26 (Sonata) Joseph Haydn, Composer Trio Wanderer ...

Two contrasting, excellent performances of Haydn trios -- the first, a couple of Sundays ago by the Esterhazy Machine; the other, this past Friday by the Mendelssohn Piano Trio -- offer a vivid lesson ...

The first volume of Naxos’s new series of Haydn piano trios includes the most famous Haydn trio of all, the one nicknamed the Gypsy Rondo Trio, after its Rondo all’ Ongarese finale. It’s one of a set ...

The Kungsbacka Trio has already made an outstanding contribution to 18th-century piano trio recordings with its Naxos set of Mozart (8.570519). This first volume of Haydn’s similarly testifies to the ...