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Powerful Chopin and Mendelssohn from the Leonore Piano Trio in Sheffield

By Phil Parker, 30 September 2025

The ninth instalment in the Leonore Piano Trio’s ‘Romantic Piano Trios’ series serves up a Chopin rarity alongside Mendelssohn’s impassioned late C minor Trio.

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Sheffield

30 Sep 2025

Powerful performances by the Leonore Piano Trio in Sheffield

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The Linos Piano Trio take us off the beaten track in trios by Fauré and Fanny Mendelssohn

By Phil Parker, 26 June 2025

Composers’ only works for piano trio, and works not for piano trio at all: an entirely normal concert for the ever-curious Linos Piano Trio.

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Sheffield

26 Jun 2025

The Linos Piano Trio in trios by Fauré and Fanny Mendelssohn

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Leonore Piano Trio: effortlessly impeccable in Haydn, Beethoven and Schumann in Sheffield

By Phil Parker, 08 October 2024

Slow movements steal the show in the Leonore Piano Trio’s superlative Music in the Round recital in Sheffield.

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Sheffield

08 Oct 2024

Leonore Piano Trio: effortlessly impeccable in Sheffield

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Tokyo

Aoi Trio sparkles at Suntory Hall's Chamber Music Garden

By Nahoko Gotoh, 08 June 2022

In the second installment of their seven-year project at Suntory Hall's Chamber Music Garden, the Aoi Trio display a new level of confidence and bravura in Beethoven, Hosokawa and Franck.

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Tokyo

08 Jun 2022

Aoi Trio sparkles at Suntory Hall's Chamber Music Garden

By Nahoko Gotoh

Haydn and Dvořak to raise the spirits at Music in the Round

By Steve Draper, 17 September 2021

The Leonore Trio begin a series, pairing some of the greatest piano trios of the 19th century with Haydn’s.

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Sheffield

17 Sep 2021

Haydn and Dvořak to raise the spirits at Music in the Round

By Steve Draper

Hamburg

Glorious chamber music from Martha Argerich and friends in Hamburg

By Zoltán Szabó, 28 June 2021

From Beethoven's “Ghost” Piano Trio to Schumann’s song cycle, Frauenliebe und -leben, an eclectic programme at the Martha Argerich Festival.

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Hamburg

28 Jun 2021

Glorious chamber music from Martha Argerich and friends in Hamburg

By Zoltán Szabó

Wettingen

Remarkable Resonance: Bohemian Rhapsody from the Oliver Schnyder Trio

By Sarah Batschelet, 22 May 2021

The Oliver Schnyder Trio performed a superb programme of works by Smetana and Dvořák in Wettingen, near Baden, Switzerland.

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Wettingen

22 May 2021

Remarkable Resonance from the Oliver Schnyder Trio

By Sarah Batschelet

Indianapolis

Morton Feldman, bare-boned and beautiful, from the Horszowski Trio

By Kurt Gottschalk, 04 May 2021

Horszowski gave Feldman’s Trio everything it needed – a tempo almost too slow to count, a delicacy in attack that left the space around the notes mostly empty, and a deep focus through shifting time signatures.

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Indianapolis

04 May 2021

Morton Feldman, bare-boned and beautiful, from the Horszowski Trio

By Kurt Gottschalk

Winterthur

In Winterthur, a Beethoven Second Symphony perfect for toasting!

By Laurence Vittes, 16 December 2020

If there had been an audience, they would have toasted the concert with the Kölsch beers the composer loved best.

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Winterthur

16 Dec 2020

In Winterthur, a Beethoven Second Symphony perfect for toasting!

By Laurence Vittes

Hong Kong

Playful passion: Sitkovetsky Trio sparkle in Triple Concerto with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta

By Christopher Halls, 16 November 2019

A forced programme change by Hong Kong Sinfonietta proves beneficial, lightening up the evening with Mozart’s overture to Le nozze di Figaro before a pair of Beethoven works.

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Hong Kong

16 Nov 2019

Playful passion: Sitkovetsky Trio sparkle in Triple Concerto

By Christopher Halls

Dublin

Impressive Finlandia and rarely heard Tchaikovsky Seventh from RTÉ NSO

By Andrew Larkin, 05 April 2019

A fiery rendition of Sibleius' Finlandia and an interesting account of Tchaikovsky's The Symphony of Life while Beethoven's Triple Concerto fails to convince.

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Dublin

05 Apr 2019

Finlandia and Tchaikovsky from RTÉ NSO

By Andrew Larkin

Tokyo

Aoi Trio makes a celebrated return to Suntory Hall’s Blue Rose

By Yawara Watanabe, 14 December 2018

Fresh from victory in the ARD Competition's Piano Trio category, the Aoi Trio returned to Tokyo's Suntory Hall for a celebratory recital.

Tokyo

14 Dec 2018

Aoi Trio makes a celebrated return to Suntory Hall’s Blue Rose

By Yawara Watanabe

Southampton

Vienna Piano Trio impresses in stamina and sensitivity at Turner Sims

By David Truslove, 17 April 2018

Three works of different character were given strong, largely persuasive readings by this acclaimed Piano Trio, and impressed with their assurance and commitment.

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Southampton

17 Apr 2018

Vienna Piano Trio impresses in stamina and sensitivity at Turner Sims

By David Truslove

Evanston

Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio brings warmth to Northwestern’s Winter Chamber Music Festival

By Sam Jacobson, 13 January 2017

The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio presented superb performances of the seminal piano trios of Brahms and Shostakovich, prefaced by a newly commissioned work from Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

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Evanston

13 Jan 2017

Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio brings warmth to Northwestern’s Winter Chamber Music Festival

By Sam Jacobson

Delta Piano Trio: virtuosity and elegance at Conway Hall

By Julien Hanck, 04 December 2016

Regarded by fellow musicians as one of the most promising young ensemble, the Delta Piano Trio have made a name for themselves with their raw, uncompromising musicianship, their energy and a willingness to invest oneself beyond comfort.

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London

04 Dec 2016

Virtuosity and elegance at Conway Hall

By Julien Hanck

Sydney

Trio Dali in Sydney: splendid execution but short on emotional depth

By Zoltán Szabó, 14 November 2016

The choice of repertoire for Trio Dali’s second programme on their current Australian tour was excellent. The members of the Trio are almost as young as Felix Mendelssohn was when he composed his Piano Trio no. 2 in C minor, Op.66, the opening number.

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Sydney

14 Nov 2016

Splendid execution but short on emotional depth

By Zoltán Szabó

Southampton

Eclectic programme from the Vienna Piano Trio at the Turner Sims

By David Truslove, 05 May 2016

Mixed performances from this well-known ensemble, but overall fine playing that showcased the genius of Haydn and beauty of Frank Bridge.

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Southampton

05 May 2016

Eclectic programme from the Vienna Piano Trio

By David Truslove

Sydney

Crisp and delicate: the Eggner Trio featuring music by two female composers

By Zoltán Szabó, 09 November 2015

Only a few days ago, the newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made history and provoked frenzied headlines by forming his cabinet with an equal number of men and women.

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Sydney

09 Nov 2015

Crisp and delicate: the Eggner Trio in Sydney

By Zoltán Szabó

Winchester

London Bridge Trio and guest artists fill Winchester's Theatre Royal

By David Truslove, 01 May 2015

Mozart and Schubert were performed with superb technical assurance and cool precision as part of the Winchester Chamber Music Festival.

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Winchester

01 May 2015

London Bridge Trio and guests in Winchester

By David Truslove

The Erato Piano Trio and friends at the 1901 Art Club

By Chris Garlick, 05 February 2015

What a treat to discover the 1901 Arts Club and to be treated to such an intimate and enjoyable evening of music making with the Erato Piano Trio and friends.

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London

05 Feb 2015

The Erato Piano Trio and friends at the 1901 Art Club

By Chris Garlick

Southampton

Superb Musicianship from Vienna Piano Trio at the Turner Sims

By David Truslove, 26 October 2014

Haydn, Mozart and Brahms provided the perfect menu for the Turner Sims Sunday afternoon tea-time concert given by the Vienna Piano Trio.

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Southampton

26 Oct 2014

Superb Musicianship from Vienna Piano Trio

By David Truslove

Sydney

Passionate renditions of Smetana, Vine and Tchaikovsky from the Sitkovetksy Trio

By David Larkin, 31 March 2014

The Sitkovetsky Trio impresses with fearless and passionate performances of Smetana, Tchaikovsky and Carl Vine in Sydney's City Recital Hall.

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Sydney

31 Mar 2014

Passionate renditions of Smetana, Vine and Tchaikovsky from the Sitkovetksy Trio

By David Larkin

Cardiff

Robert Fokkens portrait concert draws impressive performances from Fidelio Trio in Cardiff

By Peter Reynolds, 01 October 2013

Whole concerts devoted to the music of one composer can be risky affairs: a cruel test of how mature and robust a composer is. In a concert devoted to the music of the South African composer Robert Fokkens, given by the Fidelio Trio and opening Cardiff University’s 2013/14 series, both composer and performers came through with flying colours.

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Cardiff

01 Oct 2013

Robert Fokkens portrait concert draws impressive performances from Fidelio Trio in Cardiff

By Peter Reynolds

Distractions mar an excellently played Quartet for the End of Time at Kings Place Festival

By George Slater-Walker, 15 September 2013

It is rare to find a venue where one can walk from a Cuban big band set (Orquestra Estelar) and into a performance of one of Messiaen’s most transcendental and intimate masterpieces. Rarer still for such a venue to place the latter performance next door to the former in a lecture room entirely lacking in acoustic shielding, so that any noise from outside is clearly audible.

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London

15 Sep 2013

Distractions mar an excellently played Quartet for the End of Time at Kings Place Festival

By George Slater-Walker

Prom 62: Django Bates impresses with a celebration of Charlie Parker

By Adam Tait, 28 August 2013

“None of us have any idea what Parker would have been playing by now: he died 50 years ago. As an optimist I like to think he would have evolved,” Django Bates writes in the programme for Prom 62, remembering a critic’s harsh words regarding a previous Parker-centric performance with a slightly nervous defensiveness. But there’s more in that than there might first appear.

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London

28 Aug 2013

Prom 62: Django Bates impresses with a celebration of Charlie Parker

By Adam Tait

The Lawson Piano Trio and Clare Hammond in recital at Wigmore Hall

By Frances Wilson, 17 June 2013

The Monday Platform at Wigmore Hall, presented by the Park Lane Group, showcased the impressive and varied talents of the Lawson Trio and pianist Clare Hammond. The Park Lane Group provides support, performance platforms, and other creative opportunities for talented young artists.

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London

17 Jun 2013

The Lawson Piano Trio and Clare Hammond in recital at Wigmore Hall

By Frances Wilson

Toronto

The Duke Trio make magnificent music in the afternoon at University of Toronto's Walter Hall

By Stanley Fefferman, 14 February 2013

Three of the composers on the program of this 115th season of the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto are linked in a significant pattern of numbers. Felix Mendelssohn was born in 1809, the year Joseph Haydn died. Paul Schoenfield was born in 1947, one hundred years after Mendelssohn died. Haydn’s Piano Trio no.

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Toronto

14 Feb 2013

The Duke Trio make magnificent music in the afternoon at University of Toronto's Walter Hall

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Bristol

The Sitkovetsky Piano Trio play Brahms and Smetana at St George's Bristol

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 27 January 2013

This concert was a wonderful way to spend a Sunday morning. It was the first of the Sitkovetsky Piano Trio’s coffee-morning concerts – “Coffee Classics” – in which they gave a passion-fuelled performance of Brahms’ Piano Trio no. 2 in C major, and Smetena’s Piano Trio in G minor.

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Bristol

27 Jan 2013

The Sitkovetsky Piano Trio play Brahms and Smetana at St George's Bristol

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Truro

IMS Prussia Cove Livens Up the Chamber Music Crowd in Cornwall

By Lucy Armstrong, 20 April 2012

Drawing an end to a season of vigorous study under some of the world's leading maestri, the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove presented their penultimate concert in Truro School Chapel with a steadfast sense of achievement that derived from the fruit of labour combined with an eternal passion for music.

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Truro

20 Apr 2012

IMS Prussia Cove Livens Up the Chamber Music Crowd in Cornwall

By Lucy Armstrong

London Mozart Trio play Brahms, Shostakovich and Schubert at very short notice

By Ken Ward, 13 November 2011

The scheduled programme had included Trios by Debussy and Chaminade, and I’d done my homework so that at least I’d have some idea about what was what. But very unfortunately the Fiorini Trio had had to cancel at very short notice - so it was extraordinary that the concert took place at all, thanks to the London Mozart Trio standing in.

London

13 Nov 2011

London Mozart Trio play Brahms, Shostakovich and Schubert at very short notice

By Ken Ward

Stunning Appassionata from Takenouchi bonus before Beara Trio's fine Conway Hall concert

By Ken Ward, 30 October 2011

These Conway Hall Sunday Evening Concerts are always good value, but this one was especially generous: there was a ‘pre-concert recital’, 40 mins before the concert proper. As we were taking our seats, pianist Hiro (Hiroaki) Takenouchi was still driving frantically to the venue, having been severely held up in traffic.

London

30 Oct 2011

Stunning Appassionata from Takenouchi bonus before Beara Trio's fine Conway Hall concert

By Ken Ward

Leeds

The London Mozart Trio at Leeds International Jewish Performing Arts Festival

By Laura Kate Wilson, 27 June 2011

The London Mozart Trio have a concert schedule dominated by London venues, so their performance at the Leeds College of Music as part of the city's International Jewish Performing Arts Festival on Monday was a rare opportunity for those outside the capital to hear their beautiful music.

Leeds

27 Jun 2011

The London Mozart Trio at Leeds International Jewish Performing Arts Festival

By Laura Kate Wilson

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Comme une évidence : le Trio Pantoum aux Bouffes du Nord

By Tristan Labouret, 05 May 2025

La jeune formation a montré l'étendue de ses qualités lors d'un concert qui marquait la sortie de son premier album, consacré en partie à la musique russe.

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Paris

05 May 2025

Comme une évidence : le Trio Pantoum aux Bouffes du Nord

By Tristan Labouret

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Toulouse

Le Trio Zeliha et le contraste des romantiques à Saint-Pierre des Cuisines

By Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, 07 January 2025

La violoniste Manon Galy a fait son retour dans sa ville natale avec son Trio, pour une soirée Schubert-Brahms contrastée.

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Toulouse

07 Jan 2025

Le Trio Zeliha et le contraste des romantiques à Toulouse

By Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer

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Salamanca

Brillante interpretación del Sitkovetsky Trio en el Teatro Liceo de Salamanca

By Francisco Martínez Ramos, 07 October 2024

El Sitkovetsky Trio inauguró con mucho éxito el ciclo de música de cámara que se celebra en el Teatro Liceo de Salamanca.

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Salamanca

07 Oct 2024

El Sitkovetsky Trio brilla en el Teatro Liceo de Salamanca

By Francisco Martínez Ramos

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Marvão

Des lundums à la Messe du couronnement : la joyeuse diversité du Festival de Marvão

By Erwan Gentric, 20 July 2024

Entre le concert de l'ensemble Os Músicos do Tejo, la messe mozartienne du dimanche matin, la soirée symphonique en plein air et les concerts de musique de chambre, tous les goûts sont à Marvão !

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Marvão

20 Jul 2024

La joyeuse diversité du Festival international de Marvão

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Tours

Les Esprits du Trio Wanderer et l'éclaireur Jonathan Biss à la Grange de Meslay

By Alain Lompech, 08 June 2024

Du fameux trio de Beethoven aux lieder et aux sonates de Schubert, le premier week-end du Festival de la Grange de Meslay a proposé un cheminement admirable dans un répertoire en clair-obscur.

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Tours

08 Jun 2024

Les Esprits du Trio Wanderer et l'éclaireur Jonathan Biss

By Alain Lompech

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L'insatiable curiosité de Gidon Kremer Salle Gaveau

By Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 05 June 2023

En trio, le violoniste letton livre une lecture bouleversante d'œuvres de compositeurs contemporains méconnus, avant un Trio « Élégiaque » n° 2 de Rachmaninov plus ordinaire.

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Paris

05 Jun 2023

L'insatiable curiosité de Gidon Kremer Salle Gaveau

By Jean-Pierre Rousseau

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Santa Cruz de Tenerife

La madurez luminosa del Guarneri Trio Prague deleita en Tenerife

By Francisco Martínez Ramos, 25 May 2023

El prestigioso conjunto checo Guarneri Trio Prague ofreció en Tenerife un concierto soberbio con un programa puramente centroeuropeo.

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Santa Cruz de Tenerife

25 May 2023

Guarneri Trio Prague: la madurez luminosa

By Francisco Martínez Ramos

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Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Trio Wanderer: inolvidable velada camerística en el Auditorio de Tenerife

By Francisco Martínez Ramos, 23 March 2023

Memorable concierto del Trio Wanderer, conjunto camerístico francés, en la sala de cámara del Auditorio de Tenerife con obras de Schumann, Liszt y Mendelssohn.

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Santa Cruz de Tenerife

23 Mar 2023

Trio Wanderer: inolvidable velada camerística en Tenerife

By Francisco Martínez Ramos

Le Saint-Saëns méconnu du Trio Zadig Salle Cortot

By Clara Leonardi, 07 February 2022

Les Zadig présentent un programme intégralement consacré à Saint-Saëns : à côté d'arrangements méconnus du compositeur, pas toujours convaincants, la formation impose une lecture fougueuse, sans être monolithique, du Trio n° 2.

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Paris

07 Feb 2022

Le Saint-Saëns méconnu du Trio Zadig Salle Cortot

By Clara Leonardi