Hummel: Piano Trios
Usually when you go looking for obscure classical repertoire like  Hummel trios, you have to put up with whatever you can get. What a treat it is to  hear this music played by the world's best-known trio! These high-voltage  performers really have a time with Hummel's expert writing (he was, after all, a  pupil of Mozart). They bring out all his forecastings of the Romantic era, and his  sense of humor as well. (Wait till you hear them scampering through the finale of  Op. 65!) Lovely recorded sound, too. I hope this group's celebrity will lead  potential listeners to discover this almost first-rate music by an undeservedly  forgotten composer.--Leslie Gerber