Paganini’s compositions for a trio comprising strings and guitar form a small but significant corpus consisting of five works of differing length, formal structure and weight of scoring such as the Serenata in F major M.S. 115, the Terzetto in A minor M.S. 116, the Serenata in C major M.S. 17, the Terzetto concertante in D major M.S. 114 and the Terzetto in D major M.S. 69 here published.

This last-named work demonstrates the high level of composition that Nicolò Paganini had attained to in h...