"The perfected transparency of the harmonious playing (which literally remains play all the way through), the pale, lean sound, the lightweight, flowing, rhythmically swinging motion: all of this reflects a bourgeois culture of past days, the society of clever, enterprising people, to which Schubert belonged or at least was inclined to. But the Trio Vivente offers far far more than merely the faithful copy of a past epoch..." (Wolfgang Stähr)