Trio di Milano

The Trio di Milano was founded in 1968 by violinist Cesare Ferraresi, cellist Rocco Filippini and pianist Bruno Canino. Ferraresi was the elder statesman, born in 1919 and scion of a famous musical family, his brother Aldo being one of Italy’s leading violinists and around whom something of a mini-cult has now developed. Canino was born in 1936 and has an international career and Filippini has made a number of admired discs whilst Ferraresi died too young in 1981, his place being taken in the trio by the leader of I Musici, the Rumanian born Mariana Sirbu. The Trio di Milano took their place immediately in the firmament of existing Italian trios — competition existed in the shape of the trios of Trieste and Bologna — but they have remained durable and flexible exponents of the repertoire.