Piano Trio No.1

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In the middle of the nineteenth century, French audiences were interested in hardly any music but opera. Only a few mavericks like Berlioz were devoting much effort to instrumental music, and so when the 28-year-old Saint-Saëns wrote his first piano trio in 1863, he could find no indigenous traditions to inspire him. S... read more

Recorded versions of this work

1991 • 4 tracks • 29m

Beaux Arts Trio

1989 • 4 tracks • 27m

Nash Ensemble

1986 • 4 tracks • 25m

Robert Zimansky, Jan Polacek, Michael Ponti

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