Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Trio pour piano en ré mineur, op. 120

Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935)
Deux Rhapsodies

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Trio en si bémol majeur, op. 11 "Gassenhauer"

Atsuko Koga, flûte
Georgiy Lomakov, violoncelle
Radoslaw Kurek, piano

On their new GENUIN CD, the internationally award-winning flutist Atsuko Koga and her fellow musicians Georgiy Lomakov (cello) and Radoslaw Kurek (piano) bring together music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Gabriel Fauré, and Charles Martin Loeffler. The trio's airy, free sound with its unusual combination of instruments is a perfect match for the three works, which represent the piano trio genre in completely different ways: Beethoven's Gassenhauer Trio as an amusing and witty play on stereotypes of its time, Fauré's late work as a detached and intimate meditation, and finally Loeffler's misty impressionistic poems – an absolute discovery!