Trio des Alpes - Antonin Dvorak: Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major Op. 21 (B51); Piano Trio No. 2 in G minor Op. 26 (B56)

Dvorak's chamber music is amongst the most extensive and significant of the 19th-century and the four surviving piano trios embody his command of the form. The first two were written in rapid succession, with No. 1 in B flat major marrying Schubertian lyricism with Slavic inflexions, serenity with joy. No. 2 in G minor is rather more classically conceived though it shares the same formal structure as No. 1 and exudes a similar quotient of lyric beauty.