Besides works by Haydn, Louise Farrenc, Clara Schumann, Fanny Hensel, Chopin, Berwald, Kiel, Goetz, Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Janáček, Debussy, Ravel, Henze, Acker, Killmayer, Rihm and Erdmann lie the complete cycles of the piano trios by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Gade, Schumann, Brahms, Dvořák and Shostakovich.
Recordings with trios by Beethoven, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Smetana, Janáček, Debussy and Ravel were five times awarded at the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, CDs were chosen as reference recordings (stereoplay: Mozart, classics today USA: Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms and Dvořák), in Klassik heute the second Dvořák CD became "Klassik-Tipp des Monats", Audio chose the Brahms recording as "CD of the Month", in the Neue Musikzeitung the Haydn CD appeared on the "Top List of the Year 1993", in the highscore list of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Joachim Kaiser rated the first Schubert CD as his "record of the year", the second Schubert CD was awarded stereoplay "Audiophile CD-Tip of the Month".
[2] Works by Haydn, Mozart, Kraus, Beethoven, Schubert, Donizetti, Mendelssohn and Brahms have been performed.
In addition to their concert activities, the three musicians taught at the music academies in Münster and Hannover..[1] Together, the Abegg Trio passed on their experience in international master classes.
[1] From 1976 to 2017 it performed over 40 years in the original line-up, a very rare case of continuity in a chamber music ensemble.