Does anyone else here absolutely love this piece! Anyway, the reason im posting this in viva strings is I was wondering about the standard of the violin and cello parts. I know thats kinda subjective and you cant really say for definate that piece x is grade y standard, no more, no less. But all I want is just a rough estimate. What do you think is the minimum standard where someone could attempt to play this. I was going to try and talk a violin playing friend and a cello playing friend into learning it with me, just for fun. Im not sure I would be able to play the violin part myself, will stick to piano.
Of course, If people think it would be far too overambitious I will just enjoy listening to it for now, but are there any other pieces you would reccommend?

The piano trios I like are the Brahms b-minor, Mendelssohn d-minor, and Ravel a-minor. All are difficult for all players, and I reckon the Rachmaninoff is too. In fact, I'm struggling to think of any well-known piano trio which is fairly easy: odd that.

However, if you add a viola in, you can try the two Mozart piano quartets which though not easy aren't too hard. Lovely tunes in them too...

P.S. The Notturno for piano trio by Schubert might be relatively easy.

Ya. The only musicians I know besides myself are a clarinettist (grade 5) a cellist (grade 8) and a violinist ( post grade 8-not quite diploma). There are a few others in my church but I rarely see them or talk to them. Dunno what standard I am at piano, alot of the pieces I play tend to be around lrsm/frsm standard so I suppose my technique would be around there, no Idea if I'd be considered musical enough to pass one of those though (doubt it...). I guessed it was much more than grade 8 but thought I would ask anyway. Will look into that schubert notturno, and find a violist...

Interestingly, the combination of instruments you list, Cl/Vln/Vcl/Pf, is exactly that required to play one of the great chamber music masterworks of the 20th century, namely Olivier Messaien's Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time). Taken as a whole, the piece is extremely difficult, but there are two adagios in it for (Vcl and Vln respectively) which might be worth a look. Messaien's music is not to everyone's taste: lush harmonies combined with additive Indian rhythms and birdsong imitiations, all in the service of high Catholic mysticism. I like it anyway.

Regarding Schubert, he wrote two very fine piano trios but they are quite taxing due to their length.

Thank you storini! Will look into those.....