"The Bohemian-born Viennese composer Leopold Koželuch published some five dozen sonatas and trios for piano, violin, and cello—a remarkable output. Inventive and skillful, he embraced the latest musical fashions without ever succumbing to the sort of triviality that caused so much music written for cultivated domestic music-making to be laid aside after a single performance. Over the past few years, Trio 1790 has selected roughly a quarter of these consistently delightful works—some dramatically charged, others enriched by folkloric elements—and recorded them for cpo with extraordinary sensitivity and refinement. Now, with this fifth volume, the series reaches its conclusion, bringing to a close a project that was never intended as an encyclopedic survey. Each of the three carefully chosen Sonates en trio is a treasure in its own right, together forming a sparkling musical delight that listeners are unlikely to set aside after a single hearing."