César Franck - Piano Trio, Op. 1, No. 3 (1842)

César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life. He was born in Liège, in modern-day Belgium (though at the time of his birth it was part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands). He gave his first concerts there in 1834 and studied privately in Paris from 1835, where his teachers included Anton Reicha.

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Piano Trio in B minor, Op. 1, No. 3 (1842)
Dedication: King of Belgium Leopold I

I. Allegro (0:00)
II. Adagio — Quasi allegretto — Premier mouvement (8:29)
III. Final. Poco lento — Moderato ma molto energico — Il doppio più lento — Tempo I (19:10)

Elivra Bekova, violin; Alfia Bekova, cello & Eleonora Bekova, piano

Details by Edition Silvertrust:
As Altmann notes, the trios were highly thought of when they came out. Mendelssohn praised them and Franz Liszt took it upon himself to introduce them on the concert stages of Germany. This Third Trio opens with a powerful set of triplets first heard in the piano and then the cello over an urgent lengthy melody in the violin. This dramatic effect is reminiscent of Schubert’s Earlkonig. The movement proceeds in a relentless fashion, only periodically interrupted by less turbulent sections, but on the whole is a riveting and stormy affair. The middle movement, Adagio-Quasi allegretto, is really two movements rolled up into one. The Adagio, is sweet and peaceful and could almost be styled a lullaby. The Quasi allegretto is march-like but is quite interesting in that long-lined string melodies underpinned by the marching rhythm create a rather original effect which is followed by a dramatic reprise of the theme from the adagio which is played over a tremolo accompaniment. The big finale, Poco lento—Moderato ma molto energico—opens quietly but with a long crescendo in the strings to soft short notes in the piano. The whole effect creates a rather mysterious and ominous atmosphere. The introduction which leads to the main section that is energetic and thrusting.