Roussel: Piano Trio in E flat major, Op. 2 - The Budapest Trio

The Budapest Trio was founded in 1927 by violinist Nicholas Roth (1902-1990) with his brother, cellist George Roth, and pianist Endre Petri. At the age of 17, Nicholas Roth was a student in the masterclass of Jenö Hubay at the Budapest Conservatory (see: books.google.d... and www.amazon.com....
After moving to the Netherlands in 1935, Nicholas Roth founded the Musica Antigua Quartet, eventually immigrating to England together with his brother George. During the 1930's the group made extensive international tours including the Soviet Union as well as the far East (Singapore, Java, Sumatra, Ceylon and the Dutch East Indies; see: machula.home.x... and klaastenholt.bl.... Nicholas Roth became a highly valued and respected teacher at Trinity College, London - and his surviving students still remember him fondly. One former student has posted photos of Nicholas Roth: www.johnearls.c....
George Roth has left a handful of recordings outside of what he recorded with the Budapest Trio: www.charm.rhul....
While I've not yet found George Roth's birth and death dates anywhere in the net, composer Klaas ten Holt, the great grandson of Nicholas Roth, revealed in 2012 that George Roth played for many years in the London Symphony Orchestra - along with the information that "George has become one week short of 100 years. If he had achieved it - he was in the meantime now deaf and half blind - he would have received a letter from the Queen. An English tradition. At last, that was all he wanted, but it should not be so." klaastenholt.bl... (the blog is written in Dutch but easily translated using Google Translator).
Klaas ten Holt also relates the following anecdote concerning George Roth: "He has among other things heard of Frank Zappa's "200 Motels" about whom he later told me: "Mr. Zappa? Well, he may be a genius, but he's certainly not a gentleman! The orchestra paid good for that sort of job, and financed other projects that it preferred to do."
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Piano Trio in E flat major, Op. 2 (1902)
I. Modéré, sans lenteur
II. Lent
III. Tres lent - Vif et gaîment
The Budapest Trio
Nicholas Roth, Violin / George Roth, Cello
Joseph Weingarten, Piano
(Gemini, 1970)
LP transfer.