Salomon Jadassohn (1831–1902) was a much-loved teacher at the Leipzig Conservatoire. He himself studied with Ignaz Moscheles (Beethoven’s friend and protégé) and Franz Liszt, and his students included Albéniz, Busoni, Delius and Grieg. He was also a prolific composer, both of the ‘official’ works (including four symphonies, several large-scale works with chorus and a large volume of chamber music), and light ‘salon’ pieces moonlighting under another name.

He was extremely popular, and renowned as an academic with several important pedagogical books that were translated and published widely around Europe. However, his music has been almost entirely forgotten, because he was a Jew, and his music and his memory was entirely suppressed by the Third Reich. This injustice is beginning to be redressed. As these three trios demonstrate, they are central to the German Romantic tradition, with something of Schumann’s melodic inspiration, the spontaneity of Schubert and Mendelssohn’s classicising elegance – fused together with Jadassohn’s own impeccable craftsmanship.