BBC Radio 3 Saint-Saëns's Circle: Gould Piano Trio

Poetry and passion, delicacy and grandeur: the Gould Piano Trio celebrates the enduring musical friendship of Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré.

‘Your visit here left a radiance that still dazzles us’ wrote Fauré to Saint-Saëns, and throughout their lives, these two famous composers were supportive and devoted friends. Fauré’s radiant, endlessly subtle late Piano Trio makes an exquisite counterpart to the soaring melodies and glittering romance of Saint-Saëns’s Second Trio in this recital from the Gould Piano Trio – described by the Washington Post as possessing ‘jeweller-like precision and a fire that ignites from the first bar’.