Milhaud/Martinů: Complete String Trios CD review – stripped-back, quicksilver sound

Jacques Thibaud String Trio(Audite)“Chamber music is a genre with which one can express one’s deepest feelings,” said Darius Milhaud; just listen to the tough, halting chorales of the Modéré from his 1947 String Trio to hear what he means. There are good reasons to pair the music of the Provençal Milhaud and his Moravian-Bohemian contemporary Bohuslav Martinů. Both gravitated to jazz-crazed Paris after the first world war, but neither forgot the specia