Gideon Klein (1919 - 1945):
Trio für Violine, Viola und Violoncello (Theresienstadt 1944)

Józef Koffler (1896 - 1944):
Trio für Violine, Viola und Violoncello op. 10 (1928)

Ernst Naumann (1832 - 1910):
Trio D-Dur für Violine, Viola und Violoncello op. 12 (1883)

The EOS Trio, formed in 2013 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, presents three string rarities worth listening to on this record, including two string trios by Jewish composers who were murdered by the Nazis: The String Trio by Gideon Klein (1920-1945) is the last composition before he was murdered in Auschwitz. In contrast, the Trio Op.10 by Josef Koffler (1896-1944) was written in 1928 when he was appointed professor of harmony and atonal composition in Lviv. The third string trio rarity, however, has nothing to do with the horrors of Nazism, because the trio Op.12 by Ernst Naumann (1832-1910) was published in 1883.