Sakuntala Trio was born as a result of the lockdown, uniting three notable chamber musicians well established in the London scene. The brusque stop from live concert activities offered the rare opportunity to rehearse the pieces for five months, meeting for a couple of days almost every week before visiting St Silas for the recording. We played all music very slowly, alike to a conversation where meaning sinks deeply, listening actively to every change of sound with the desire to make a world of difference and in an idealistic mysterious way, a difference to the world. Such a task has presented us with a sense of purpose during times when identity as musicians was being questioned. It was both an untamed path to beauty and truth and the great challenge of bringing you music never previously heard and released. The feeling is comparable to being the first ones reaching a mountain top. It is a statement of our relationship to music in confusing time and the perfect escape from the limbo.

Encounters with Brian Newbould have been a priceless experience whilst approaching his completion of the B-flat Major D.471 trio with existent fragments of music by Schubert.To be as close as possible to what the composers imagined, we embraced the sound of the raspy gut strings, speaking with the bow and looking for fresh meanings where rhetoric articulates time and create the flow of music.

We offer the labour of our love to the unique genius of Schubert and Purcell’s masterpieces in good faith to the sensitive listener with the belief you will join us in the concert live experience where composer, interpreter and audience and a complete perfect whole.