FRANZ SCHUBERT

"Buyers do get their money’s worth on the SACD featuring Schubert’s two big piano trios, Op. 99 and 100….Splendid, vibrant performances here of Schubert’s immortal music, recorded with tonal beauty and sonics that place you right inside a concert hall."

Robert E. Benson
 

"The Storioni Trio’s approach in both works could best be described as Apollonian rather than Dionysian. They studiously avoid any over-romanticism of the music, and while this somewhat austere approach can lead at times to a sense of coolness it does let the music speak on its own terms without indulgence and excessive interpretive gestures. It is the antithesis of what is to be heard on the classic the Cortot-Thibaud-Casals CD.

One thing about which there can be little argument is the quality of PentaTone’s beautifully balanced recording. Made in the Concertboerderij Valthermond, which seems an ideal chamber music venue, it has both warmth and clarity and realistically captures the three instruments and their placement in the hall."

Graham Williams

"...Young players take a light approach to deeper works-and it pays off, too."

Edward Greenfield

"My standards in the Shubert trios are Istomin/Stern/Rose, with which I grew up, and the 1984 Beaux Arts Trio set. The Storioni Trio holds up excellently in this company."

James Reel

                    ’10’

"They play with great intensity and feeling in the slow movements and are lighter and even often playful in the fast movements….The 5.0 SACD surround provides a rather close and spatially-separated sonic imago of the trio, positioned much as they are in the photo in the liner notes."

John Sunier