Syrius TrioToccata Classics TOCC 0107 ***

Salomon Jadassohn (1831-1902) was an important Leipzig-based teacher, who numbered Albéniz, Busoni, Delius and Grieg among his pupils.

You can still find his theoretical writings in print, but his music has long been forgotten. Jadassohn studied the piano with Liszt, but the style of his first three piano trios (1858, 1860, 1880) is altogether more redolent of the lost world of Mendelssohn and Schumann than either Liszt or Wagner, whose music Jadassohn also admired.

The writing is conservative, mild-mannered, well-turned, aimed, I would suspect, more at the gifted amateur for domestic use than for professional presentation in the concert hall. The Syrius Trio play it with an unfailingly graceful and light touch that seems sure to endear these pieces to music lovers with a sweet tooth. see url.ie/5sql