Album: MacMillan/Schubert, Fourteen Little Pictures – Gould Piano Trio (Wigmore Hall Live)

Sunday 01 March 2009 01:00 GMT

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Has James MacMillan swallowed the Oxford Dictionary of Music? It's not often that you see the marking "strepitoso" (boisterous), but this is just one colour in his 1997 series of miniatures for piano trio, 'Fourteen Little Pictures'. Rebarbative, fidgety, wistful and, in the final movement, brooding, his snapshots are realised as meticulously and elegantly as Schubert's Piano Trio in E flat in this live performance by the Gould Piano Trio. Beautifully balanced, this bizarre juxtaposition of composers works suprisingly well.

Pick of the Album: The superb performance of Schubert's 'Finale: Allegro moderato'

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Album: MacMillan/Schubert, Fourteen Little Pictures – Gould Piano Trio (Wigmore Hall Live)

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