Trio Pantoum (FR)

About

Trio Pantoum is a Paris based chamber group that took its name from the playful second movement of Ravel's Piano Trio, and that choice says a lot about where their heart lies. They have a clear soft spot for the French impressionist repertoire, but they are just as at home with the Czech side of the piano trio tradition. Their programmes tend to pair Ravel's trio, with its mix of Basque music, Malay poetry and exotic colours, against Dvořák's Dumky Trio, which swings between wistful laments and wild folk dances. It is a pairing that lets them show off both the delicate and the fiery sides of what a piano, violin and cello can do together.