Gioacchino Rossini • Le Barbier de Séville, ouverture
John Woolrich • Favola in Musica (after Monteverdi)
Eduard Louis Bernard Destenay • Trio en si mineur op. 27
John Linton Gardner (after Jerry Bock) • Sunrise, Sunset
Paul Gilson • Trio en sol mineur
John Linton Gardner • Ecossaises
6 World Premiere Recordings
FANFARE
The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors (USA)
«This is really quite a delightful disc. Music for oboe, clarinet and piano is uncommon (how many works can you name?), but the Daniel Trio and Léman Classics are to be thanked for showing us how appealing this combination of instruments can be.
Even better, the quality of the music is good, and the two full-length trios are finds. E. L. B. Destenay (1850-1924) was born in Algiers. His impressive twenty-two-minute trio bears the stamp of Robert Schumann and Camille Saint-Saëns, playing big romantic gestures off of more skittish passages for the reeds. Paul Gilson (1865-1942) was Belgian, and while his work is not as rare as Destenay's (...), recordings of his trio aren't exactly thick on the ground either. This is like Poulenc, with better manners, or a less dandified Français.The shorter works are just as delightful... The performances are assured, and the blend between Daniel's oboe and Farrall's clarinet is smooth and plangent...»