Varied Moods The Icicle Creek Piano Trio - heard by ROBERT ANDERSON '... admirably captured ...'

'Icicle Creek' as name for a piano trio gives me additional shivers on a cold March morning. But the happy smiles and ordered disorder of three young female hairstyles, to say nothing of much heart-warming music-making, have considerably comforted my lonely study. Within less than an hour, this CD presents a thoroughly satisfactory chamber music programme, ranging from the Austria-London of Haydn at his most adventurous, to the unmistakable Spanishness of Turina, and Shostakovich's quirky originality...

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN

JOAQUIN TURINA

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

PIANO TRIO