Neave Trio - A Room of Her Own (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

In a follow-up to its extremely successful album Her Voice, the Neave Trio on A Room of Her Own once again champions the works of female composers. The only non-French composer on the album is Ethel Smyth whose Piano Trio, one of her earliest works, was composed in 1880. Like many of her works from this era, it shows a clear nod to the Austro-German influences of her studies in Leipzig, particularly of Brahms. Cécile Chaminade was born just a year before Smyth, and her First Piano Trio was written in the same year as Smyth’s. The Paris première was very well received by the critics, and the Trio was published a year later. Germaine Tailleferre’s Piano Trio began life in 1916 – 17 as a work in three movements, and then gathered dust for over sixty years, until a commission from France’s Ministère de la Culture, in 1978, enabled Tailleferre to revive and re-imagine it. By then in her mid-eighties, Tailleferre replaced the original second movement and added a fourth. The Trio is an excellent example of her compositional style – a voice that remained consistent though her long compositional career. Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps and D’un soir triste are perhaps now better known in their orchestral versions: this recording proves that the two pieces work equally well at either scale. As they are among the last compositions of her short life (she died of chronic illness at twenty-four), we are left to imagine what she might have written had she lived longer.

Tracklist:
01 - Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps
02 - Boulanger: D'un soir triste
Chaminade: Piano Trio No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 11
03 - I. Allegro - Meno mosso - Tempo I
04 - II. Andante - Animato - Tempo I
05 - III. Presto leggiero
06 - IV. Allegro molto agitato - Poco più mosso
Tailleferre: Trio for Piano, Violin & Cello
07 - I. Allegro animato
08 - II. Allegro vivace
09 - III. Moderato
10 - IV. Très animé - Accélérez - Tempo I
Smyth: Piano Trio in D minor
11 - I. Allegro non troppo
12 - II. 'Der Mutte [sic] der Einfachkeit [sic]_!'
13 - III. Scherzo. Presto con brio
14 - IV. Finale. Allegro vivace


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