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Sonate for piano, violin and cello (Op. 20) audio with score is available on YT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or7E2H3IY3A

Trio Op. 4 is available too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHhfHAR_p4E

Isn't he right.....? Well I, for one, can't answer that question since I've got no idea what it means!

Well it means that when you hear a Schoenberg-like chord you can't say that it is the Schoenberg-like style

I'm currently working out my response to this new CD of the Trios that arrived yesterday. What does rather put me off are the notes in the CD booklet. <...>
This kind of balderdash is no way to sell a CD of possibly interesting music.

I agree, the annotations are... exaggerated (not to say more). The Sonate Op. 20 (or Second Trio) was performed in December, 1924 by Sabaneyev himself and two members of the Russian Beethoven Quartet. There was an article by Sabaneyev for this concert. Maybe his own characteristics would be more suitable than the revelations of mr. Chaim Farschele

The article is here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/9w5wc7
(however, there is a mistake in translation on p. 433: should be "bewitched by apollonism" instead of "satanism").

I can't wait for your own review for the pieces.

How interesting! I can't hear any Schoenberg influence here. There may be some harmonic traits, but obviously cannot be any inner connection -- there is nothing more different than Schoenberg and Sabaneyev. There is an article by him about his own musical philosophy ("The Composer-Critic" in Musical Times, 1927). Isn't he right when he says "A resemblance even between some of the elements of the harmonic lexicon cannot in this case be indicative, since the psychology of creative work does not depend on them at all. In the classical period, of course, all the composers used approximately the same harmonic colours, but nobody could therefore assert their mutual creative solidarity."