It’s a brave move by the Neave Trio to couple two of the most searing trios in the repertoire. Searing for different reasons: Fauré wrote his a year before his death, while Shostakovich’s Second dates from the Second World War and was dedicated to the memory of Ivan Sollertinsky. The trios may have a shared intensity but there the similarities end. And that is one of the issues here: both pieces are approached with a puppyish enthusiasm where broad brush-strokes count for more than finesse.

Take the slow movement of Fauré’s Trio. It needs an absolutely steady tread but the Neave can’t resist little speedings-up, little elongations. Clearly they’re struck by the touching quality of this music; but its potency comes from a certain restraint. In the last movement their pianist doesn’t match the fingery litheness of Eric Le Sage. And as a whole they lack the tautness of expression of the most compelling readings – not just the recent Alpha one but also those from the Capuçons and the Florestan. The very close recording doesn’t help, catching intakes of breath and page-turns. And the disc comes without notes, referring you simply to their website.

No matter how often you hear it, the opening of the Shostakovich is surely one of the most extraordinary passages in the trio repertoire. But the Neave’s string players can’t compete with the duetting of Bell/Isserlis, Kremer/Maisky or of course Oistrakh in any of his various performances. In the second movement their pianist has due heft but as an ensemble they lack the precision of Bell et al and the fire of Kremer and colleagues. And the Wanderer (though I’m not that keen on their recording quality) catch the despair of the slow movement to overwhelming effect.