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THE DANIEL TRIO NICHOLAS DANIEL OBOE JOY FARRALL CLARINET JULIUS DRAKE PIANO 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 • Sunrise, Sunset Paul Gilson • Trio en sol mineur John Linton Gardner • Ecossaises 6 World Premiere Recordings CD: LC 44301 FANFARE (USA) «...this is ear candy of the nicest kind» 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...» more about The Daniel Trio ... more about Nicholas Daniel... more about Joy Farrall... more about Julius Drake...