Only pedants and music critics will worry that this disc claims to include Mendelssohn's complete piano trios, but in fact includes only the two mature, well-known works, in D minor and C minor; an early piece (composed in 1820), in which a viola replaces the usual cello, is omitted.

Yet these are highly civilised, thoroughly sensitive accounts of both large-scale works, recorded in a perfectly natural acoustic that never favours one instrument above the others. This is, in essence, highly agreeable chamber music-making, but after a while one longs for a bigger personality to appear. In the end, the Trio Parnassus plays it just a bit too safe.