Brahms’s three piano trios make an obvious programme for disc, even if, played one after the other, there’s just slightly too much music to fit on a single CD. No matter, however, when enterprising companies such as Ondine offer the two discs for the price of one; but wouldn’t it have been better to have an extra piece and another half-hour or so of the Tetzlaffs’ and Vogt’s marvellous musicianship?

Never mind, as these are truly admirable performances. Disc 1 contains the Second and Third Trios, while the First sits alone on disc 2. So you can play them in chronological order simply enough, although it’s instructive to be introduced to these performances via the more ebullient sound world of the Second, with the First, the most popular of the three, to close the programme. These players have been performing together for a long time – the string players, naturally, since childhood – and much in evidence is that telepathy that passes between musicians comfortable in each other’s company. Think back, for example, to Christian Tetzlaff’s Schumann violin sonatas with Vogt (1/14) and the fervour of concentration and musical consideration that was so clearly evident in those performances.

For comparison I went back to another siblings-plus-pianist ensemble – the Capuçons with Nicholas Angelich. Whereas they imbue this music with a certain Gallic douceur, albeit strengthened by the backbone of Angelich’s pianism, the Tetzlaffs and Vogt bring a Teutonic terseness to it, screwing up the tension that is so much part of Brahms’s music and making each span into a wonderfully cathartic experience. Christian Tetzlaff perhaps doesn’t play with the creamy richness of Renaud Capuçon but the blend between this most thoughtful of musicians and his sister is as natural and complete as one might expect. And Vogt’s propulsive pianism is every bit the equal of his American counterpart’s – especially in the strenuous writing of the First and Third Trios – and deliciously light-fingered in moments such as the eerie Hexen-Scherzo of the Second Trio. If ultimately it comes down to the invidious choice between Tetzlaffs and Capuçons, I’m stumped. Buy both.