Clarinetist Patrick Messina, violist Lise Berthaud, and pianist Fabrizio Chiovetta pair works by Mozart and Bruch on this new release. The trio celebrates the evolution of an innovative instrumental configuration established in Mozart’s 1786 “Kegelstatt” Trio, K. 498. Inspired by clarinettist Anton Stadler and written for a circle of close friends, the trio combines virtuosity and sensitivity, capturing the essence of eighteenth-century Viennese salon music. Almost 120 years later, Max Bruch took up the torch with his Opus 83. Driven by late Romanticism, this set of eight pieces bears witness to Bruch’s attachment to a musical language steeped in tradition. Although originally conceived to include a harp, the work adapts perfectly to the clarinet-viola-piano formation.