Praised for “hypnotic lyricism, causing listeners to forget where they were for a moment”, Trio Brontë returns with an enticing programme of buoyant Schubert and early Shostakovich.

Shostakovich’s Trio No. 1, composed when he was just 16 and published years after his death, shows an innocence and romanticism unusual in his later works. It is paired with Schubert’s first trio, described as “a large-scale work that doesn’t feel like one”. It is contemporary with his Winterreise, but so much more optimistic in outlook that Schumann said of it: “one glance at Schubert's Trio and the troubles of our human existence disappear and all the world is fresh and bright again”.

Trio Brontë:
Chiara Sannicandro violin
Annie Jacobs-Perkins cello
Lili Bogdanova piano