Trio in B flat, Op. 99
1 Allegro moderato. 2 Andante un poco mosso. 3 Scherzo: Allegro. 4 Rondo: Allegro vivace played by Max Rostal (violin)
Sela Trau (violoncello)
Louis Kentner (pianoforte)
Whereas Schubert was a pioneer of the romantic movement as a song composer, even from the early part of his career when he wrote the ' Erlking it was not until the last three or four years of his life that he began to apply a romantic technique, particularly as regards harmony, to classical instrumental forms ; for example, in the Piano Trios in B flat and E flat, composed in 1827 for the Bocklet-Schuppanzigh Linke Trio, with which Schubert at that time was closely associated. Both works are extremely romantic in conception.