The Contemporary Hornist has a habit of harping on twin pitfalls of contemporary horn music: overuse of the high register and non-use (dare one say ignorance?) of the low register. Recent decades have heralded a number of new trios for horn, violin, and piano from established modernist composers that fall into these traps. But one that mostly avoids them is the 2004 Trio für Violine, Horn und Klavier by Friedrich Goldmann (1941-2009).