Of Smetana's limited chamber music output, it is certainly the First String Quartet, entitled "From My Life," that is the most commonly performed and well-known. It was not, however, his only large-scale chamber work, nor was it the only one that centered around events from his own life. The Op. 15 Piano Trio in G minor, heard here on this Doron album, was written around the same time as the untimely death of his daughter and clearly influenced its sometimes dark, sometimes plaintive moods. The Two Pieces for Violin and Piano, subtitled "From my Homeland," draws from Smetana's influential Bohemian surrounds, as does The Moldau, heard here in transcription for piano trio. Performing these three works is the Trio Mersson, comprised of Russian-Swiss pianist Boris Mersson, Turkish violinist Kemal Agçag, and American cellist Carolyn Hopkins. Recorded in 1989, this album has little more to offer now than it did at its original release two decades ago. Performances throughout the disc come across as severely amateurish, with sometimes poor intonation, sloppy ensemble, limited cohesiveness of musical intent, and unappealing recorded sound quality. Despite the self-laudatory remarks made in the liner notes, Boris Mersson's transcription of The Moldau does not begin to approach the same color and texture achieved in the original orchestral version, and his trio's performance of it is equally flat and unmoving.