The Gould Piano Trio continues its pincer-movement Marschner survey with his second and penultimate essays in the genre. The G minor Second Trio followed the First in 1841 after a gap of 18 years and shares the assurance and drive I identified in the earlier work (The Strad, February 2025) but with the fully individual voice that hadn’t quite come into focus by 1823. It’s tempting to spot passing Schumannisms here and there – Schumann expressed his admiration for Marschner’s trios – but of course his own piano trios lay in the future, so the tone Marschner strikes, so far removed from Beethoven and Schubert, is entirely his own.
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“As before, the Gould Trio proves an unstinting advocate on a recording (in the beautiful Wyastone acoustic) that provides pleasure throughout…”
