Harmonia Mundi HMC 902060, £13.99
Liszt’s Tristia, a trio arrangement of his solo piano piece Vallée d’Obermann, sets the elegiac tone of this disc, which plumbs even further depths of despair in the cello and piano version of La lugubre gondola.
Trio Wanderer captures the various shades of melancholy and nostalgia that Liszt voiced in these and four other works in a similar vein, and in Smetana’s Trio evokes the heartache and anguish that the composer expressed on the death of his young daughter.
