Neave Trio - Smetana - Suk - Martin - Coleridge-Taylor: Rooted (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The Neave Trio’s programme Rooted features a range of works based on folk music. Smetana’s distinctive nationalistic style was largely based on the inclusion of bohemian rhythmic and melodic elements, and he was acclaimed in his native Bohemia as the father of Czech music. His Trio in G minor was composed in 1855 as a response to the death of his four-year old daughter and shows the influence of Liszt.

Josef Suk was a favourite pupil of Dvorák’s, and his early Piano Trio, whilst shorter in length and less intense than Smetana’s, is embedded in that Czech tradition. Also deeply influenced by Dvorák, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was inspired by his African heritage, as well, and his Twenty-Four Negro Melodies for Piano was a prime example of his research. He subsequently arranged five of these pieces into the suite for piano trio that we hear on this album. The programme concludes with Frank Martin’s Trio from 1925, which is based on traditional Irish melodies.

Tracklist:
1: Neave Trio - Piano Trio, Op. 15 - I. Moderato assai
2: Neave Trio - Piano Trio, Op. 15 - II. Allegro, ma non agitato
3: Neave Trio - Piano Trio, Op. 15 - III. Finale. Presto
4: Neave Trio - Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio - I. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
5: Neave Trio - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio - II. I was way down a-yonder
6: Neave Trio - Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio - III. Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel?
7: Neave Trio - Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio - IV. They will not lend me a child
8: Neave Trio - Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio - V. My Lord delivered Daniel
9: Neave Trio - Josef Suk, Petit Trio, Op. 2 - I. Allegro
10: Neave Trio - Petit Trio, Op. 2 - II. Andante
11: Neave Trio - Petit Trio, Op. 2 - III. Vivace
12: Neave Trio - Trio - I. Allegro moderato
13: Neave Trio - Trio - II. Adagio
14: Neave Trio - Trio - III. Gigue


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