Even the most hostile of Chopin's critics, Rellstab, the editor of the Berlin musical journal Iris, admits in 1833, after censuring the composer's excessive striving after originality, and the unnecessarily difficult pianoforte passages with their progressions of intervals alike repellent to hand and ear, that this Trio is "on the whole a praiseworthy work, which, in spite of some excursions into deviating bye-paths, strikes out in a better direction than the usual productions of the modern composers".