In my original review (3/76) I called the Yuval a young Israeli trio. Nothing is given about them here except their names and I don’t know if they are still active. Well‚ we are all a bit older. It is a pleasure to listen to them again and enjoy their individual accomplishments – the violinist is especially fine – while taking delight in their discourse and certainty of aim as a well­matched ensemble. This is everything chamber­music playing should be. The range of expression seems to me nicely judged‚ especially in the Smetana‚ where the levels of intensity need to be carefully controlled if the work is not to appear rather one­dimensional‚ given the amount of ‘big’ writing for all the instruments. Thanks to this violinist‚ in his opening solo‚ it gets off to an ideal start‚ spot­on in characterisation‚ and what then follows has the effortless pacing and differentiation deriving from the exactitude of this beginning. The surprising appearance of solemnity in the second movement has a convincing rhetoric‚ and in the finale‚ taken at a true presto‚ there is room for the long lines to be sung. I think the Dvo·ák is a touch less distinguished but still exemplary. The alternations of fast and slow music could have brought sharper contrasts perhaps‚ and although I didn’t sit down with a stack of comparisons‚ I have memories that the best Czech groups free the piece up a bit. The recordings date from the autumn of 1974‚ in Berlin‚ and DG’s refreshment of them and original image bit­processing have brought them up well.