You don’t need the pictures front and back of this set to tell you that Gould Trio get on very nicely with each other. It’s perfectly clear from their playing... the Iightening of texture and the expressive elegance of the long lines are very refreshing. What’s remarkable about these inrerpretations is how un-heavy they are. There’s plenty of body to the sound, but the agility, fluency and delicacy ofren bring the music closer to Brahms’s archetypically Romantic mentor Schumann ... Fine recordings too, which make you feel that you’re in the room with the players, close enough to feel almost part of the performance. PERFORMANCE ***** RECORDING *****
