The Florestan Trio - Haydn: Piano Trios Vol. 2 (2009)

Haydn's Piano Trios are among the most delightful and inventive of all his works. They have a 'domestic' reputation, and indeed they were intended for playing at home. Many outstanding musicians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries never performed in public for one simple reason: they were women. Who knows how many gifted women musicians were denied opportunities that their male counterparts enjoyed? Haydn wrote a set of three piano trios for Thesese Jansen, a pupil of Clementi and a pianist Haydn considered to be among London's finest. The Florestan Trio, with their magnificent pianist Susan Tomes, dazzle in this repertoire. Their first disc of Haydn's piano trios was enthusiastically acclaimed.