The piano trio in F major Op. 8, composed in 1896, is one of Pfitzner's most successful works and was often performed during his lifetime, as for example by Alma Mahler. Several recent prominent CD recordings underline the importance of the individual composition in which wonderful cantilenas, outbursts of pain and gnawing grief alternate in a characteristic way. The finale alone, with its duration of more fifteen minutes, presents itself as a symphonic poem of three voices. Published upon sugge...