• Tracks

Storytelling takes centre stage in the Fidelio Trio's second recording for Delphian, in which they are joined by Alexander McCall Smith, who narrates Sally Beamish's evocative the Seafarer Trio with a mingled intimacy and plangency. The comparatively abstract sounds of Nigel Osborne's the Piano Tuner track a journey into the dark heart of nineteenth-century Burma, while the stories told in Judith Weir's Zen-inspired Piano Trio Two include that of 'How grass and trees become enlightened'.