One of Mendelssohn’s own watercolours of the Amalfi coast is on the cover of the Sitkovetsky Trio’s recording, all honeyed village walls and turquoise sea; a similar sense of heat and spaciousness comes across in their performance of his two piano trios. In Trio No 2, the piano dominates, which gives the impression that violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky is pushing his tone more than is ideal. But in the tiny third movement, Wu Qian rattles off the piano part with a deft, light touch, and the violin and cello have room to be as crisply quiet as they like. In this and the corresponding movement of Trio No 1, this recording scores marginally in Mendelssohnian lightness against the strong recent release from the Trio Dali. The slow movement of No 1 is full of long phrases and sweet violin tone, and the finale rounds things off with a fine balance of breadth and playfulness.