What are your favourite piano trios ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mozart wouldn't like you replacing his beloved viola with a cello, ferney

- no, he wouldn't. Multitudinous scatalogical invectives shower down upon my witless head!

[ahinton]

[COLOR="#0000FF"]Looking forward to seeing what the stewards make of that flagrant (but fascinating) breach of the rules, ahinton!! (I suspect teamsaint won't be reaching for the red card, though - too much to follow up on...

Oops! Guilty as charged, m'lud! I was concentrating on the thread topic more than the content of the OP and accordingly failed to notice that only three were being asked for - so, out of those that I cited, my three would probably have to be the Brahms C major, the Tchaikovsky and the Ravel (the last of which was the first piece of chamber music I ever heard and the first time I ever heard a violin being played and, believe me, when you come at Ravel's masterly Trio with as clean a slate and as innocent a pair of ears as that, the effect is pretty devastating!).

The Bridge works, for instance... Don't know those at all, suspect I'd like em )

They are truly wonderful, although quite different from one another; the second is a work that I would risk argument by describing as the finest piano trio ever composed by an Englishman.

[Barbirollians]

The Schubert pair.

[EdgeleyRob]

teamsaint, working your way through the Haydn Trios will certainly be a longish task! I have the fine Beaux Arts Trio set from Philips, and sample them from time to time by random dipping in to the 43 in the box!

I bought that set many years ago in a sale at HMV Manchester for next to nothing.
In all that time I think I've only listened to two or three of them.
I could never part with the box though,I will get round to them.

ONLY 3 favourites,blimey that's tough.

Mendelssohn no 1.
Brahms no 3.
Have to have a British one too,I like so many (Stanford,Parry ,Rubbra,Ireland,Bridge etc etc)
I'll go for Ireland no 3.

[JFLL]

The question’s impossible – too many of equal status, and I don't want to do an ahinton. But just to add a bit of spice, I much prefer Dvorak’s op. 65 to the overrated ‘Dumky’. Anyone else?

[antongould]

The Archduke
Ravel
Faure

[Nick Armstrong]

The Archduke
Ravel
Faure

Almost! I'll listen to the Archduke again if you give the Shostakovich No 2 a listen...

[aeolium]

The question’s impossible – too many of equal status, and I don't want to do an ahinton. But just to add a bit of spice, I much prefer Dvorak’s op. 65 to the overrated ‘Dumky’. Anyone else?

Isn't it just about favourites regardless of status? I agree with you about op 65 (and, OT, I much prefer his op 105 and op 106 quartets to the 'American').

[JFLL]

Isn't it just about favourites regardless of status? I agree with you about op 65 (and, OT, I much prefer his op 105 and op 106 quartets to the 'American').

Well, aeolium, I really meant their ‘status’ in my personal popularity league, but if I have to, my choice might be: Haydn ‘Gipsy’, Mozart K. 502, Beethoven ‘Archduke’. But it might well be different in ten minutes time!

(I agree about the Dvorak quartets as well.)

[LeMartinPecheur]

But just to add a bit of spice, I much prefer Dvorak’s op. 65 to the overrated ‘Dumky’. Anyone else?

JFLL: beet yew tuit: see my #9

[JFLL]

JFLL: beet yew tuit: see my #9

Oh lor, LMP, my apologies -- there's just so much to read lately on this forum.

[cloughie]

Kegelstatt
Archduke
Ravel

But Schubert 898 and 929 close behind.

[EdgeleyRob]

If like me piano trios are your thing, there's always this http://www.sky.fm/classicalpianotrios

[robk]

I wish I hadn't looked at this thread. I am missing Ravel, Dvorak, Shostakovich & Beethoven except the Archduke let alone most of Mozart & Haydn. It would be good to know people's favourite recordings as well as their favourite trios. I have tended to focus on quartets so far.

[Nick Armstrong]

Ravel Trio: Trio Dali http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ravel-Trio-P.../dp/B001MUJSZU

I'll be interested to know people's opinions about which is the best Shostakovich... I have Oistrakh & another with DSCH at the piano; Leonskaja & Borodins; Ax/Stern/Ma... Unsure if any 'better' versions have come along lately.