• At first glance, another Schubert trios disc. On investigation, one of the more intriguing of recent chamber music releases, full of curiosity and fine playing. The Sakuntala Trio’s debut disc, Franz Schubert: The Complete String Trios (Resonus), with three Fantasias by Henry Purcell, features the world-premiere recording of Schubert’s String Trio in B flat, D.471, in a completion by Brian Newbould. Only the first movement and part of the slow movement were finished at the time of the composer’s death. The other Schubert work is the Trio in B flat, D.581 in the second version.
