Gould Piano Trio
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All in all, I’m most grateful to the Gould Piano Trio for their committed advocacy of these neglected, often delightful works, and I’m eagerly awaiting the next instalment. —
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Howells: Chamber Music
String Quartet 'In Gloucestershire', Lady Audrey's Suite, Piano Quartet
Gould Piano Trio, David Adams (viola), Dante Quartet
This disc contains music-making of such energy, clear-sightedness and passion that sceptics may wonder where Howells has been all their lives; enthusiasts, of course, will feel wholly vindicated.... —
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These excellent performances are distinguished by beauty of tone and a rhythmic spring and alertness that has not always been Ireland's lot… the Gould Trio bring out the music's rhythmic variety,... —
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[The Gould Trio's] players follow the composer's directions to the letter, bringing a natural flow to the various difficult changes in tempo in the first movement and mapping its emotional narrative... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, Chamber Choice
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The relative smallness of piano trio repertory is partly due to the medium's balance difficulties...Such is Stanford's skill in the Piano Trio No. 2 that the problem seems not to exist: its... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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Stanford: Piano Quartet No. 2
Gould Piano Trio: Lucy Gould (violin), Alice Neary (cello) & Benjamin Frith (piano), with David Adams (viola)
It's hard to draw a deeper connection between an apparently un-Teutonic composer who came up with this winsome Irish material, and the one who could absorb himself so fully, and to such a finished... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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Stanford: Clarinet Sonata
Robert Plane (clarinet), Mia Cooper (violin II) & David Adams (viola)
Gould Piano Trio
There's some fine music here, and Robert Plane is a persuasive advocate. …Stanford enthusiasts will welcome the bonus of his third and last Piano Trio: Brahmsian again and here given a clear... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Editor's Choice
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The performances are excellent: Lucy Gould leads the Trios in fine style, Alice Neary is richly expressive in the Folk-Tale, Benjamin Frith works wonders with Bax's alarmingly note-laden piano... —
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The tone Marschner strikes, so far removed from Beethoven and Schubert, is entirely his own...As before, the Gould Trio proves an unstinting advocate on a recording that provides pleasure throughout...... —
