Germany's Trio Zimmermann is made up of players with their own solo careers, meeting each year only for one or two short periods of touring. Yet they take the relatively rare string trio format seriously. Frank Peter Zimmermann formed the trio in 2007, after he had performed with violist Antoine Tamestit. The pair added cellist Christian Poltéra and quickly began to find performance and recording opportunities. Trio Zimmermann was signed to the BIS label, and released its debut album, a recording of Mozart's late Divertimento in E flat major for string trio, K. 563, in 2010. It has released four albums on BIS, covering music by Beethoven and, in 2017, the technically perilous string trios of Paul Hindemith and Arnold Schoenberg. ~ James Manheim